Telangana State launches Ambulance App

Hyderabad: Minister for health C Laxma Reddy launched the ‘Call Ambulance’ app on Monday to help citizens avail efficient emergency care. The app is first-of-its-kind integrated emergency notification app to help patients prone to emergencies get accelerated help from GVK EMRI (108), friends and family.

A person in distress can use the app and notify GVK EMRI call centre with information such as location of the person, health history, emergency contacts or family doctors and insurance



details.  Dr Laxma Reddy said that armed with this information, GVK EMRI could validate the information from patient in distress much more efficiently and improve efficiency in dispatching ambulance to the patient. The doctor on call at GVK EMRI would have enough information on the patient to guide a treatment procedure remotely if required, he said.