Number “112” for emergency situations is being used in Kazan more often

Kazan citizens are using a single number of emergency services “112” twice often in comparison with last year. The number of appeals reached 25 % from the total number of calls received by dispatching services of emergency response under Ministry of emergency situations, Ministry of interiors and Ministry of health care of Tatarstan Republic.

Daily the dispatching centre received about 2 000 calls informing about road accidents, necessity to call for an ambulance, firemen and rescuers. About 60 000 calls were received to the number “112” in March this year.

Due to the unified navigation system “GLONASS+112” that has been functioning in Tatarstan since 2009, all emergency services were united into the single system. It allows immediately respond to threat or occurrence of an emergency situation. Anyone who gets into trouble or wants to help an injured person just needs to dial the number “112” on mobile telephone. After receiving a call the dispatcher immediately sends a team of rescuers, ambulance or brigade of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate being close to the place of accident.