Aiming at reducing the number of deaths from heart attacks, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Thursday launched ‘Mission DELHI’ to deliver good post-attack care at the doorstep.
With four bike-ambulances and 12 nurses trained to handle emergency cases, Mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-Attack Initiative) aims to reduce the time it takes for people with a serious heart attack to receive clot-busting medicine.
In the pilot phase, it will cater only to people living in a three-kilometre radius of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and may be further expanded, depending on the success of the project.The service will be available at toll free numbers — 14430 and 1800-11-1044 — for help.
Nurses posted at the control room in AIIMS will assess the kind of care the patient needs on the basis of a questionnaire and then dispatch a bike ambulance.
A CATS ambulance will also be dispatched simultaneously.
The awareness drives and dry runs for the project had started seven months ago. So far, the nurses on the field have already conducted 1,804 dry runs and done 1,040 ECG.
Read more of this in a report published in Hindustan Times...
