Safety measures help reduce traffic accidents in Sealine

Doha, Qatar: Measures taken by the General Directorate of Traffic of the Ministry of Interior have helped reduce the number of traffic accidents in Se...

Doha, Qatar: Measures taken by the General Directorate of Traffic of the Ministry of Interior have helped reduce the number of traffic accidents in Sealine area significantly, said an official.

“The ambulance service also covers Sealine area where the number of accidents have reduced drastically,” said Assistant Executive Director of Emergency Healthcare Coordination for HMC Ambulance Service, Abdulaziz Alyafei.

Speaking to Qatar TV recently, he said last year about 14 ambulance vehicles were deployed at Sealine, which has been reduced to eight this year because the number of accidents went down due to restrictions made by the Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Traffic.

“Earlier, Sealine alone witnessed one or two accidents during weekend apart from those in other parts of the country related to traffic accidents or other types of injuries,” said Alyafei.

He said the Ambulance Service receives from 800 to 900 calls requesting for ambulance daily. “The number of calls are growing every year amid population growth and ambulance service response to all types of calls including patients and accidents,” said Alyafei.