EMRI Green Health Services (EMRI GHS), a leading provider of emergency ambulance services in India, has launched the country’s first-ever Resuscitation Academy in Hyderabad.
“We were pioneers in establishing the 108 emergency ambulance services operated by EMRI, and now we aim to introduce a rapid response system for cardiac care. The primary goal of this academy is to improve cardiac arrest survival rates in India,” said Dr. GV Ramana Rao, Director of the Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC) & Research at EMRI.
The academy was officially inaugurated on 14th of March by R.V. Karnan, Commissioner of Health & Family Welfare and CEO of Aarogyasri Trust, Telangana, who served as the chief guest. During the event, Mr. Karnan emphasized that Telangana surpasses the national average in ambulance availability. While the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recommends having one Basic Life Support (BLS) and one Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance per 100,000 people, Telangana currently provides one ambulance for every 64,500 people, with a goal of improving this ratio to one for every 50,000 people.
India records around 1.2 million cases of sudden cardiac arrest annually, yet awareness and knowledge of CPR remain critically low at just 2%. Furthermore, instances of bystander CPR are extremely rare. These concerning statistics highlight the urgent need for better resuscitation strategies across the country.
The newly established academy, the first of its kind in India, is dedicated to advancing resuscitation training and joins a global network of similar academies in 30 other countries.
To mark its launch, the academy hosted its inaugural Leadership Workshop at the EMRI GHS campus. This two-day residential program brought together more than 75 participants, including doctors from esteemed institutions such as NIMS and Apollo, government health officials, subject matter experts, and key leaders in emergency medicine.
The workshop focused on implementing the Global Resuscitation Alliance (GRA) 10 Steps, a globally recognized framework for improving cardiac arrest survival rates. The Resuscitation Academy in India believes that by effectively adopting these ten steps, the Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC) rate in cardiac arrest cases can be increased from the current 2% to 10% in targeted regions of India by 2030.
