A bike rally with the Hyderabad Benelli Owners Group was organised to raise emergency awareness
Continental Hospitals launched the ‘I am Emergency Ready’ emergency drive to raise awareness on emergency preparedness amongst the common people. The objective of the initiative is to mitigate risk and minimise loss during medical emergencies.
At the outset, the hospital acknowledged the critical support that the ER doctors, nurses & paramedics offer to manage medical emergencies on a daily basis.
The launch that took place at Continental Hospitals in Gachibowli, Hyderabad with popular Telugu actors Priyadarshi Pullikonda & Krishnaswamy Srikanth Iyengar in attendance. The event also saw attendance from the corporate sector with Praveen Upadhya, Director of Facilities, Virtusa Polaris; Kundan Prakash, Director, Microsoft; Mayank Bhargava, AVP, ICICI Lombard and Satyanarayana Mathula, Chairman, Facility Managers Council.
To make India Emergency Ready, the hospital seeks to train the general public on Bystander Life Support which will equip them to offer immediate care to anyone facing a medical emergency and keep the patient stable until professional medical help arrives.
The BLS training will be conducted for both individuals as well as corporates; and will also include everyday people like auto drivers, roadside vendors, school students and teachers, parents, social workers, security guards amongst others. The trainees will receive certification and an emergency toolkit at the successful completion of training.
Continental Hospitals CEO Faisal Siddiqui said, “The ‘I am Emergency Ready’ drive is one such initiative that we are proud to present. In times of medical emergencies, bystanders are often unable to do anything to stabilise the patient before professional help arrive. This results in the loss of critical minutes that leads to the worsening of the patient’s condition, at times even irreversibly. In trauma cases it is imperative for a person to be ready for a spontaneous intervention and through this initiative we aim to raise both awareness and preparedness required to identify and manage common medical emergencies, resulting in patients being stabilised before transportation to the nearest hospital.”
As part of the initiative, the hospital also instituted the ‘Good Samaritan Award,’ a platform to recognize, reward and appreciate those Good Samaritans who have helped victims in case of a medical emergency. The Hyderabad Benelli Owners Group pledged their support to this campaign by getting together their riders for this good cause. A group of 20 Benelli riders along with the hospital doctors and staff took part in a bike rally that was organised from the hospital to Cyber Towers, Madhapur to raise awareness about the importance of bystanders life support training and to stress on the importance of being emergency ready.
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