Ziqitza Health Care Limited: February 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Story on Dial 1298 for Ambulance service & Sweta Mangal, CEO of 1298

Yourstory.in is a website for & on entrepreneurs. They have written a story on the Dial 1298 for Ambulance service and its CEO, Sweta Mangal who speaks on the founding of the service and the challenges / achievements faced till date.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Article on 'Dial 1298 for Ambulance' service in Kerala which appeared in Mangalam Magazine.

1298 First Responder Program - NDTV

NDTV highlights how youth in India are gearing up to deal with emergencies and how the 1298 First Responder Program is empowering youth in First Aid & Basic Life Support.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Emergency in Mumbai? Dial 1298!

Video on Dial 1298 for Ambulance by Good Magazine.

Video by: Michael Schaubach, Aparna Wilder, Shivraj Santhakumar, MacKenzie Fegan, Erik Winkowski, Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie

About Ziqitza Health Care Limited

Ziqitza Health Care Limited (ZHL), is set up by a group of young professionals who, after their education / training in the US and professional employment / entrepreneurial projects in India, realized the acute need for organized and networked Ambulance service in India for saving lives which may otherwise have been lost ONLY for want of timely medical attention. Ziqitza health care operates the Emergency Medical Response (Ambulance) Services under two models Dial '1298' for Ambulance (Popularly called 1298 model) – Fee for Service model with cross subsidy, where the rich and affordable pays higher and the poor pays less, and for very poor/accidents/emergencies the service is free of cost. Currently this service is operational in the city of Mumbai and the state of Kerala. Dial '108' in Emergency (Popularly called 108 model) – This model is usually in public private partnership with State Governments, this could be either free to patient or on a user fee, as per the contract with State Governments. The service is provided to Emergency victims. This model is operational in Bihar, Trivandrum, Rajasthan and Punjab.