Ambulance Service: A call unheard

Madam, I am writing in reference to the Editorial titled Role of pre-hospital care and ambulance services in Karachi published Dec, 2011. The author presents a wellbalanced argument in regards to the role of ambulance and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in a city densely populated as Karachi. Being a city with population of over 20 million and government s obvious lack of adequateunderstanding of EMS it seems only just that the void be filled by private volunteer organizations like the AMAN, EDHI, CHIPA and KKF. Many hospitals have their own ambulance services but their numbers are actually too diminutive to be of any significance to the masses on a whole.