Chennai: SIMS Hospital has launched a GPS-enabled ambulance system with a central dispatch centre on 4 April. \r\nAt an event on 4 April, Sridhar K., vice president - medical, explained that the hospital’s quick response emergency service was aimed at getting patients into the hospital within the golden hour. “The GPS-enabled ambulances will be parked in the perimeter of the city for faster deployment. They are fully loaded with ventilators and defibrillators. A centrally-located dispatch centre will provide instructions to bystanders/attendants and locate the nearest ambulance to the site to dispatch,” he said. |
