MIRPUR (Kashmir English): International Emergency Team UK, a British NGO, on Tuesday donated fully-equipped four first responder motorbikes to Rescue 1122 Mirpur Division, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), for timely and effective emergency response in the state.
The ceremony was held at the Commissioner’s Office, Mirpur, where Chaudhry Mehrban Sadiq, the Patron-in-Chief of the International Emergency Team UK, handed over the keys of the rescue motorbikes to the Secretary Relief, Disaster Management & Civil Defence, Chaudhry Farid.
The bikes contain modern health services equipment and medicines, which would play an important role in providing better facilities for any emergency situation, accidents, and other emergency services, the NGO representative said, while speaking at the ceremony.
“Each rescue motorbike would be more effective for those places where narrow streets and vehicles and ambulance service could not reach,” he stated.
Chaudhry Mehrban said that in 2017, the International Emergency Team UK donated motorbikes to the Punjab Emergency Service, the number of which has reached 2300 today.
He said that his organization had been supporting Punjab Rescue 1122 and providing training to emergency services for the past several years.
“Now, we are trying to include Rescue 1122 of Azad Kashmir in this training program and assured that they will provide all possible support to the steps taken by Azad Kashmir Rescue 1122 and the State Disaster Management Authority to save human lives,” he added.
The Secretary State Disaster Management Authority, Commissioner Mirpur, and Deputy Commissioner Mirpur thanked the NGO and Chaudhry Mehrban Sadiq and expressed the hope that the Emergency Response Team UK will similarly support the emergency service, Rescue 1122 Azad Kashmir.
Commissioner Chaudhry Mukhtar Hussain, while addressing the gathering, welcomed the handover of four modern rescue motorbikes by Mehrban Siddique to AJK Rescue 1122 and thanked the organization on behalf of the government of Azad Kashmir and the public.
He added that their donation will help in saving the lives of people in the facilities provided for emergency services in the three districts of Mirpur division.
