Dubai gets world’s fastest ambulance

With the maximum speed of 300 km/hr, the world’s fastest ambulance worth Dh1 million is now part of the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS). The ambulance is a Mustang car converted into an ambulance and it has been equipped with basic medical devices, alarms, and audio-visual systems. This sports car turned ambulance will reach the patient or injured in four minutes and offer urgent first aid until the arrival of the ambulance van in eight minutes. The luxury ambulance vans, according to DCAS, have been deployed in tourist areas like the Burj Khalifa, Jumeirah Street and Jumeirah sidewalk. The vehicles will also be stationed at places where conferences and big festivals are held. “The new ambulances will contribute effectively to boost the image of Dubai as one of the paramount important tourist cities, and much progressing in rendering the services to the visitors, Emiratis, and expatriates,” the Khaleej Times quoted Khalifa bin Derai, Executive Director of DCAS, as saying. “It is not just for transporting the patients fast, but rather a moving hospital that is operated by an emergency technical team and qualified paramedics to handle the serious injuries as it is equipped with the most sophisticated equipment in the world,” he added. The fast vehicles of DCAS have already transported as many as 10,000 persons suffering from heart problems over the last two years, and the number of cases in accidents stood at 44,000 last year, local news wrote.