Ambulance to reach patients within 4 minutes in Dubai

Dubai Ambulance has set a target of reaching a patient within four minutes, as part of the Dubai 10X initiative with a project themed 'Instant Response'. This will be possible at the click of a smartphone button, officials revealed.
The project has been selected among a package of government projects launched by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, at the recent World Government Summit in Dubai.
"We endeavour through this project to transform every resident and visitor in Dubai to a versed life saver when they call for a responder at a click of a button. This will contribute to enhancing the quality of the ambulance services, by speeding up the response time to less than four minutes in vital areas," said Khalifa Al Drai, executive director of the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS).
The response time is a challenge to ambulance services, as no organisation has ever responded to any report in four minutes, he said. The project relies on artificial intelligence (AI) technology for analysing huge data to get the required results. As DCAS is a health facility depending on data analysis to take proper decisions, AI will play a pivotal role in analysing patients' data, and in expecting their ailment cases.
According to Meshal Julfar, head of the 10X team and chief of the Medical Dispatching Section, the project is designed to foresee emergency cases.
Julfar said reaching a patient in four minutes is their major goal and in such situations, the paramedic responder communicates with the medical ambulance team over smartphone, video and audio.
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