PESHAWAR: The Rescue 1122 has purchased a mobile emergency medical response unit which is equipped with minor operation theatre, intensive care unit and other facilities.

A Rescue 1122 official told Dawn that the emergency unit would be first of its kind in the province and would have three rooms, including a minor operation theatre, a four-bedded intensive care unit and emergency outpatient room.

The official said it would also be equipped with automatic external defibrillator, a vital signs machine, glucometre, ECG machine and monitor, monitoring camera, 55-inch screen for public messages and display, oxygen compressors, electric thermometer, air filter and 14 chairs or seats for patients.

He said that it would also have mini lab, microscope machine and sterilising machine.

The official said the unit would arrive in the provincial capital during the next week. He said that currently about 20 emergency rescue technicians of the 1122 were getting training in Lahore.

The unit has cost about Rs20 million.

Rescue 1122 director general Dr Asad Ali Khan said that the department would deploy the unit to the areas away from major hospitals to provide on-the-spot medical care to the affected population in case of major disasters and other incidents.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2017