By Kumudini Hettiarachchi
Copyright 2007 Wijeya Newspapers Ltd.Colombo.
Sri Lanka — Rring, rring………the action starts then. The person who answers the phone quickly takes down the name of the caller, the location and also the contact phone number, cuts the line and checks back, while the other officer in the same room presses the button setting off the alarm.
Within 30 seconds during the day and a minute during the night, the calls are over and the emergency team, ambulance siren screaming, is out of the gate on its way to the location.
At the scene of the accident, out they jump from the well-equipped ambulance, checking out the casualties, tagging, with colour-coding the victims, and attending to to their initial medical needs while quickly transporting them to hospital.
Full Story: 110 - In case of accident or emergency all it takes is one call for help to arrive.