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	India: Emergency Medical Service Will Soon be Just a Call Away - Pune
	Pune: Do you panic when someone in your family falls ill and you need to take him or her to hospital? Soon you will not have to worry. In order to handle such situations, the State Health Department has kick-started a process to launch an Emergency Medical and Referral Services (EMS). Its toll free number 108 will soon be launched at its call centre, which is being set up at Aundh District Hospital in Pune. A call from any part of the state will be routed through this centre and an ambulance will be dispatched immediately to pick up patients at the earliest and rush them to the nearest hospital.
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	India: Quick, Free Help on Highway
	Gurgaon: In a unique initiative to bring down accident fatalities on National Highway-8 and provide immediate medical attention to victims, the Ministry of Surface Transport (MoST) in collaboration with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), state health departments of Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan and private sector insurance firms is going to launch a pilot project. The aim is to rescue accident victims on the stretch between New Delhi and Jaipur and offer immediate and cashless treatment to them. A number of private hospitals with trauma centre facilities and expertise in the field of critical care along the 261-km stretch betwee
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	India: Special Ambulances Launched for Heart-attack Cases
	Chandigarh: Around 70-80 per cent of cardiac arrest patients from the tri-city reach the hospital for medical help after the passage of the critical golden hour (60 minutes after the heart attack), risking the life of the patient. To provide timely treatment to heart attack patients, Max Hospital has launched a first-of-its-kind ambulance service in the city, on April 21 Sunday. Dr Anurag Sharma, senior consultant, Cardiology said, "Timely treatment within the golden hour is most important for heart patients, because the longer the gap between the heart attack and treatment, the more will be the damage to the heart. At our hospital, most of
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	India: Plan to Procure 100 Advanced Ambulances in Tamil Nadu
	Chennai: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa told the Assembly, on April 23, Tuesday that the government would procure 100 advanced life support ambulances for providing immediate medical assistance to accident victims. Informing that 16,175 persons died in 15,072 fatal road accidents reported in 2012, she said stationing ambulances on highways would help in reaching out to accident victims in short time and shifting them to nearby hospitals. The ‘golden hour’ played a crucial role in the management of road accidents. Ms. Jayalalithaa said Emergency Accident Relief Centres were introduced in 2002 to provide first aid and move accident v
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	India: Maharashtra Gov. to Invoke MESMA If Strike Continues
	Mumbai: The state government has said it will invoke the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA) if striking resident doctors do not resume work by April 25 Thursday morning. Medical education minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit announced this, on April 23, Tuesday after doctors refused to accept the government’s offer of increasing their monthly stipend by Rs. 5,000 and decreasing tuition fees. Half of the total 4,900 resident doctors (post graduate and super speciality students) from government and civic medical colleges went on a strike from April 23 Tuesday morning. The students want the stipend increased by
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India: Emergency Medical Service Will Soon be Just a Call Away - Pune

India: Quick, Free Help on Highway

India: Special Ambulances Launched for Heart-attack Cases

India: Plan to Procure 100 Advanced Ambulances in Tamil Nadu

India: Maharashtra Gov. to Invoke MESMA If Strike Continues

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