On Thursday (25.4.19), the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) has launched ‘Mission DELHI’, an emergency medical service, as
part of which a motorbike-borne assistance unit can be quickly summoned for a
person suffering heart attack or chest pain.
The pilot project has been launched in a radius of 3 kms
around All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and would be
linked with Centralized Ambulance Trauma Services (CATS).
Under Mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency
Life Heart-Attack Initiative), a pair of motorcycle-borne trained paramedic
nurses would be the first responders for treating heart attack patients.
On getting a call, the pair would rush to the spot,
gather basic information on the patient’s medical history, conduct a quick medical
examination, take the ECG, and establish a virtual connect with the
cardiologists at AIIMS and deliver expert medical advice and treatment.
While the emergency treatment is being provided, a CATS
ambulance will arrive and take the patient for further treatment.
Even as the patient is on way to the hospital, doctors at
AIIMS control center will evaluate the data received from the nurses to
establish further course of treatment.
The attempt is to reach patients within 10 minutes. In
this project, the clot buster will be given very soon even at home.
This project should not just be limited to ICMR and
AIIMS.
Every major heart hospital in Delhi-NCR should take
up this project and adopt area of 3 km around their hospital. All should be
interlinked.
ICMR should provide them with the working model for
implementation of the project for wider reach of this much-needed emergency
medical assistance.
Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
President Elect Confederation of
Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania
(CMAAO)
Group Editor-in-Chief IJCP Publications
President Heart Care Foundation of
India
Past National President
IMA
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