The number of heart patients registered with Dubai Police’s operations room rose to 1,443 at the end of June 2012 compared to 1,067 at the end of last year.
Heart patients registered with the police can get quick ambulance service in emergencies.
Until June this year, 129 heart patients benefitted from the service compared to 310 in 2011.
Meanwhile, Dubai Police’s operations room received 1,017,892 calls to the emergency number 999 during the first six months of the current year compared to 2,044,154 calls during the whole of 2011.
The operations room gets between 5,000 and 7,000 calls per day.
The number of non-emergency ‘901’ calls received totaled 25,281 in the first six months of this year compared to 40,026 in the whole of 2011.
Gen. Jassim Baremeith, director-general of the Directorate of Operations, said the public can call 135 for the police air wing’s services which provides search and rescue services during shipwrecks and marine accidents, maritime surveillance, lifting sunken objects and transfer of patients with direct imaging to the operations room.
During the first six months of this year, 24 people benefitted from the air wing’s services compared to 47 for the whole of the previous year.
Meanwhile, to ease the pressure on the emergency phone number 999, Dubai Police is set to launch a new campaign to popularize the number 901 for non-emergency queries from the public.
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