Telangana tunnel collapse: Rescue teams focus on areas zeroed in on by NGRI GPR unit but ambulances line up Domalpenta

Telangana tunnel collapse: Rescue teams focus on areas zeroed in on by NGRI GPR unit but ambulances line up Domalpenta

Rat miners and other rescue team personnel dewatering the areas where anomaly was identified by the NGRI GPR unit inside the collapsed SLBC tunnel | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Rescue teams are now scouting the areas zeroed in on by the NGRI’s Ground Probing Radar, which have found an anomaly on the surface inside the … Read more

More NHS hospitals leaving patients in corridors to free up ambulances

More NHS hospitals leaving patients in corridors to free up ambulances

Since 2022, hospitals like NNUH have increasingly adopted a new way of working called the Continuous Flow Model, in which patients are sent from A&E to wards and other areas even if they are full. They have done this to address soaring ambulance waits outside A&E as paramedics try to offload patients. In the UK, … Read more

Patients dying as ambulances face crippling delays in England

Patients dying as ambulances face crippling delays in England

Martin Flaherty, managing director of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), said: “These crippling delays are a twin threat – they cause significant harm to patients who are forced to wait in the back of our ambulances, while our crews are stuck and therefore unable to respond to patients who need us out in … Read more

Where ambulances struggle to tread

Where ambulances struggle to tread

Tribals in the Godavari region go to great lengths to call for an ambulance in the absence of mobile phone networks and poor road connectivity Tribals in the Godavari region go to great lengths to call for an ambulance in the absence of mobile phone networks and poor road connectivity Atop the Kakavadi Gandi hill … Read more