A war room attends COVID emergency calls
The Hindu
First-of-its-kind and only-run COVID control room by Cyberabad police takes over 200 calls from the twin cities every day
At 1.40 p.m. on Tuesday, a volunteer at Cyberabad COVID control room received a call for an ambulance to shift a 66-year-old COVID patient to a hospital. The ambulance reached the patient by 1.55 p.m., and she was shifted to State-run Nature Cure Hospital, Begumpet, in another 30 minutes. In another emergency, an elderly couple was shifted to a private hospital at Somajiguda from their residence in Old Bhoiguda in less than one hour on Tuesday afternoon. Both of them, aged 66 and 58 years, got infected with the virus and were experiencing breathlessness when the control room received the emergency call at 3.02 p.m.More Related News
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