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Mohammad launches accident care units
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Saturday inaugurated the new field support units that provides first aid to patients and those injured in road accidents before transporting them to hospitals.
- WAM
- Published: 22:43 June 27, 2009
- Image Credit: WAM
- Shaikh Mohammad on Saturday inaugurated mobile units to provide field support for the Dubai Centre of Ambulance Services.
Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Saturday inaugurated the new field support units that provides first aid to patients and those injured in road accidents before transporting them to hospitals.
The facility, affiliated to the Dubai Ambulance Services Centre, has two modern, well-equipped ambulance vehicles that can deliver quality medical support to critically ill patients and people involved in road accidents before taking them to hospitals.
Shaikh Mohammad inspected the vehicles. He was briefed on facilities like surgery theatre equipped with an advanced X-Ray system, centralised oxygen supplier, and oxygen controllers.
Shaikh Mohammad was also briefed by Qadi Al Murooshid, Director of Dubai Health Authority and Chairman of the centre, about a map showing locations of model ambulance stations in Dubai. The centre has ten fixed points and 54 mobile units covering all parts of Dubai.
Shaikh Mohammad also inspected four-wheel drive vehicles dedicated to first aid delivery in tough terrains. He also viewed a model of the quick intervention unit, which has ten motorcycles.
Shaikh Mohammad said that he was satisfied with the creation of the field support unit and lauded the idea as creative that would immensely contribute to reducing human losses caused by traffic accidents by delivering timely medical aid.
He praised the paramedics for their dedication and urged young nationals to join the nursing profession. Shaikh Mohammad issued instructions to increase the vehicles available to the units. Al Murooshid said inaugurating the new medical project, the first of its kind in the Middle East, underlines Shaikh Mohammad's determination to develop and modernise medical and primary healthcare services.
Shaikh Mohammad was accompanied by Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai Police Chief, and senior officials.
Addition: Third vehicle soon
Khalifa Bin Darai, Executive Manager of the Dubai Ambulance Services Centre, announced that a third ambulance vehicle would be added to the field support units. He said these units, which cost more than Dh15 million, have a capacity to handle 96 cases at a time.
"Each of the two ambulance buses cost more than Dh3 million with equipment," he told Gulf News on Saturday.
"Starting from Sunday, all the doctors, nurses, paramedics and health concerned people from government hospitals and some private hospitals, will undergo training on how to deal with the equipment of the buses. Around 50 people will undergo the training daily," he said.
He said the buses will be stationed in Jebel Ali and Warsan.
- With inputs from Alia Al Theeb, Deputy UAE Editor
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