Marengo CIMS Hospital launches stroke ambulance
The turnaround time to reach the patient is targeted at a mere 15 minutes
Marengo CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad has launched ‘Stroke Ambulance’ as a vital component in saving lives that are struck by stroke most unexpectedly. The initiative will support saving more lives from fatalities, more lives can be prevented from facing disabilities resulting from paralysis and better services can be provided through the ambulance. The session was chaired by Neurophysicians Dr Mukesh Sharma, Dr Keval Changadia, and Dr Dhrumil Shah with neurosurgeons Dr Parimal Tripathi, Dr YC Shah, Dr Deven Zaveri, Dr T KB Ganapathy, Dr Sandip Shah, Dr Jayun Shah.
The vehicle will be equipped with ACLS support, a ventilator and ACLS Train Medical officer, Nursing Staff, attendant and Driver. The turnaround time to reach the patient is targeted at a mere 15 minutes.
Dr Sharma, Head of the Stroke Program, Marengo CIMS hospital says, “We endeavour to go beyond saving lives to creating increased awareness of recognising the symptoms of a stroke to help build awareness on the golden hour. Our efforts in introducing refreshed protocols are to strengthen the medical response and the response of the support functions. It is also to create a matrix where a patient or an attendant can get medical help seamlessly and we can save more and more permanent disabilities and lives lost due to these circumstances.”
Dr Keyur Parikh, Chairman, Marengo CIMS says, “The capacity of a human body to fight back will always remain an astonishing fact. But there are always obstacles and circumstances that we endeavour to overcome in our mission to save more lives. With the launch of the Stroke Ambulance, we hope to extend the services of a fast response to bring down the number of lives lost due to lack of awareness and laxity in taking timely action as an outcome of that.”
Dr Raajiv Singhal, Founding Member, MD & CEO, Marengo Asia Healthcare said, “The stroke ambulance will make a significant difference to timely intervention with well-trained medical staff to result in vastly improved outcomes and save many lives now, as opposed to lives lost earlier due to lack of quick response.”