EmCall App description

Residents and visitors to County Roscommon who download the EmCall App to their smartphones will be able, in the case of an emergency, where a person suffers a cardiac arrest to :brbrRing Emergency Services with location coordinates and EircodebrLocate Nearest accessible DefibrillatorbrNotify 8 nearest CPR trained Responders of incident and scene brbrThe emergency response system enables a business/community to respond within 4/5 minutes with a medical intervention (CPR amp; Defibrilliation) in comparison to a target response time for the National Ambulance Service of 19 min 59 Secs. For every minute that passes after the cardiac incident the victim’s chances of survival reduce by 10%. At present 5,000 people are cardiac arrest victims annually only 250 or 5% survive.brbrDownload the EmCall App and you could save a life by pressing three buttons on your mobile phone. The EmCall App will always require you to confirm if you want to ring emergency services or notify responders so the EmCall App will only activate emergency response systems when you need them.