Revealed: Busiest day for Dubai Ambulance

Thursday is the busiest day of the week for Dubai ambulances as they receive majority of calls seeking their help and attention, according to Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS).

Speaking to Emirates 24|7, Dr Omar Al Sakaf, Director of Medical and Technical Affairs at DCAS said the majority of calls are received on Thursday as it marks the end of the week, people are moving in and out of Dubai, or from other emirates and the GCC countries.

“At 1pm, the calls start picking up, all the way until 11pm. And incidentally, the peak hour for calls is around 9pm.”

Dr Al Sakaf added: “On average, most companies have employees working until 5pm or 6pm and once they reach home, they get ready to go out at around 8pm when they drive to go shopping or to dine.”

He pointed out that out of 125,446 calls received in 2013, 64.3 per cent of the callers were male. “It’s not unusual to have fewer female callers. The working manpower in general is more in numbers than females.

“As ladies mostly work in offices, more incidents involve men as they’re involved in the heavy duty and industrial line of work, so there’s a lot of heavy lifting, truck driving, crane operating, farm work and so on.”

He added that out of these thousands of calls, 31,964 were for trauma cases. “A total of 48,206 calls were general and undiagnosed cases, while the least calls  (4 per cent) were linked to respiratory and neurological cases.”

Dr Al Sakaf says that the age group that’s mostly involved in the cases are between 21 to 30 years old. “Around the world its common to get into a lot of activities at that age, especially driving, and all the doings related to that.”

He added that an increase of 15.77 per cent  of calls are expected for 2014.

With that in mind, Dr Al Sakaf advises others to “please follow the traffic regulations and avoid danger to yourself and others”.

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