Medical Emergency Care in India is still a very primitive and neglected specialty though thousands of lives are lost every year in accidents and other emergencies. Apollo Group of Hospitals is the first corporate hospital in the country to address this specialty and in 2002 launched the first ever Emergency Response System.

INDIA TODAY  

Emergency care is a neglected in India has been neglected so far and thousands of lives have been lost every year for want of immediate quality care. 

• 95% of emergency victims do not receive proper care during the golden hour
  
  
• 30% of those who die in an emergency could bee saved had quality care been available to them earlier
  
  
• While the worldwide ratio is 0.75 accidents per 1000 vehicles, in India it is at 16 accidents per 1000!