Shillong, February 02nd: With a fleet strength of forty eight ambulances located in forty three locations across eleven districts in the entire state of Meghalaya, GVK EMRI – Meghalaya operations today completed eight years in the mission of saving lives.
As on the 31st of January, 2017, the Emergency Response Centre (ERC) has attended to twenty one lakh plus call since inception – of which the 108 Emergency Service Ambulance based in the state of Meghalaya has handled more than one lakh fifty five thousands plus emergencies of which thirty percent are pregnancy related emergencies and fifteen percent are road accident related emergencies. The “Wheels of Hope” has saved over seventeen thousand plus lives and fifteen hundred plus deliveries have been assisted and conducted by the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and inside the 108 Ambulance.
Nationally, GVK EMRI is operating in various services in fifteen states and Union Territory in India as well as operating emergency services in Sri Lanka. Apart from attending to emergency relating to medical, police and fire – GVK EMRI has also introduce services like Animal Ambulance on dialing 1962 through the Department of Animal Husbandry, dial 100, Women’s Helpline 181, Inter Facility Transport Ambulance, Mobile Medical Unit, Pediatric and Neonatal Ambulance, drop back ambulance to reduce infant and maternal mortality rate and call 104 for health Emergency.
GVK EMRI is also conducting a two years residential full time Advance Post Graduate Diploma in Emergency Care design by Stanford University and recognized by Osmania University. A 108 Emergency Service Ambulance team based in Shillong have won the National EM Care for the best case handled on the month of October, 2016.
