'One Million Rescue Volunteers To Be Produced In 2-3 Years'

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'One million rescue volunteers to be produced in 2-3 years'

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Jan, 2019 ) ::Punjab Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) Faisalabad has decided to produce one million volunteers from this district during next two-three years.

This was said by Rescue 1122 spokesman Muhammad Faisal while talking to APP here on Wednesday.

He said that Rescue 1122 has so far registered more than 200,000 persons in Faisalabad as volunteers whereas efforts had been accelerated to create awareness among people about the benefits of rescue training so that number of rescue volunteers could be increased up to one million within next 2-3 years.

He said that nine centers of Rescue 1122 were working in Faisalabad including its all Tehsils. Rescue 1122 has total 720 staff members, 39 ambulance vehicles, 100 ambulance bikes, 11 fire fighting vehicles, two water vans and two water bowsers. With this strength, Rescue 1122 responded to average 227.71 calls daily within response time of 6.28 minutes for emergency and within 8.75 minutes in case of fire incident during 2018, he added.