Delhi Government increased the number of Centralised Ambulance Trauma Services (CATS) ambulance significantly which was 160 till May 15 and now 594. With this move, the response time of CATS ambulance reduced to 18 minutes helping in saving the lives of many critical Covid patients.
If officials in Delhi Government are to be believed, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of ambulances in the national capital and the response time has come down by 37 minutes.
As data shared by the administration, on May 15, the response time of CATS ambulance was recorded around 55 minutes, which came down to 42.58 minutes on June 1. “Similarly, by June 30, the response time has come down to 34.25 minutes and till August 10, it has come down to about 18 minutes,” a government official said.
Detailing further, a senior government officials with Delhi administration said that this decision of Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal reduced helped in the reduction of the response time of the CATS ambulance.
Correlating the response time with CATS number, the official said on May 15 the response time of CATS ambulance was around 55 minutes which reduced to 18 minutes by August 10. By CM's instruction, patients are being admitted within 10 minutes of reaching hospital by ambulance.”
“As of May 15, there were 160 CATS ambulances, which was increased to 337 by June 1. Similarly, their number was increased to 569 by 30 June and to 594 by 10 August.”
“CM Kejriwal also ensured that with the increase of the number of CATS ambulance there should be an increased capacity of receiving calls for the ambulance,” he added.
Notably, on May 15, there were 20 lines, which was increased to 25 by June 1 and then it became 30 by June 30. At present the Delhi government has the capacity of receiving calls in 30 systems.”
“On May 15, the number of calls attended by the CATS ambulance services was 750, the fleet status was 160, the lines connected were 20, and the response time was 55 minutes.
The number of calls refused was 222. On August 10, the number of calls attended by CATS was 945, the fleet status was 594, the lines connected were 30, the response time was 18 minutes, and no calls were refused in this month.”