Involved about Nigeria’s persistent challenges in emergency healthcare response, CareOne Digital Hospitals, has launched Port Harcourt’s first-ever free emergency ambulance service, designed to make sure that no affected person is denied life-saving assist because of price or delay.
Mission Director, Dr. Segun Ebitanmi, stated the initiative is to make healthcare extra accessible and aware of Nigerians. “Our purpose is to ensure sufferers get correct medical care rapidly, safely, and with out worrying about fee first. Each second counts in an emergency.”
He added that the service, working operates 24 hours each day underneath CareOne’s ongoing transformation of Rehoboth Specialist Hospital, is GPS-enabled and fully free.
Ebitanmi defined that the brand new service addresses one of many largest gaps in Nigeria’s healthcare system – delayed or unaffordable transport throughout emergencies.
In accordance with him, with a devoted hotline and skilled paramedics on standby, the service is predicted to considerably enhance survival outcomes, significantly for accident victims, trauma instances, and emergency surgical sufferers.
“We’re constructing a system that responds earlier than tragedy strikes,” he stated.“That is about giving folks a combating likelihood.” The brand new emergency service is supported by a contemporary digital dispatch centre, outfitted with real-time monitoring instruments together with GPS and what3words expertise, permitting ambulances to find sufferers rapidly, even in densely populated or hard-to-reach areas.
Every ambulance is totally outfitted and staffed with skilled paramedics, making certain that crucial medical assist begins the second the car arrives -not when the affected person reaches the hospital.
Ebitanmi disclosed that as a part of its one-year transformation agenda, CareOne plans to develop the service to cowl extra areas in Rivers State and combine it with a digital affected person administration platform for quicker triage, follow-up care, and higher coordination between area and hospital groups.
“Our long-term purpose is obvious. We wish emergency medical response to be swift, inclusive, and lifesaving – one group at a time,” Ebitanmi acknowledged.
