K.G. MEDICON-07
Chief Executive Officer of Hyderabad-based Emergency Management and Research Institute Venkat Chengavalli speaks on his organisation’s emergency toll-free service at a function at K.G. Hospital in Coimbatore.The Hyderabad-based Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) plans to extend its toll-free emergency services contact system throughout the country, Chief Executive Officer of the institute Venkat Chengavalli said here on Saturday. The institute launched the country’s first toll-free Call 108 (911 style) emergency services contact system. EMRI launched this service in a public-private partnership with the Andhra Pradesh Government. Since its launch in 2005, EMRI has touched more than a million people’s lives. The aim of the project was to cover 10 million people in Andhra Pradesh, he said while delivering the keynote address at K.G. Hospital’s ‘K.G. MEDICON-07’.Hospital Chairman G. Bakthavathsalam lauded the corporate-social responsibility of the research institute, especially the emergency contact system that would help save lives. He also said K.G. Hospital was willing to join hands with EMRI to give emergency and trauma care to the people in and around Coimbatore. The ‘Call 108’ system in Andhra Pradesh gave more than 10 million residents of five cities and 10 municipalities access to fire services, police, medical and other emergency services. State-of-the-art ambulances were despatched to save victims of accidents, heart attacks and suicides attempts.
