A single number for all emergencies in Sardinia
The Councilor for Health Doria: "We have reached an important milestone, respecting the stages and the timetable that we had set"Councilor Carlo Doria (Archive)
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A single European number for all emergencies in Sardinia is now 112. This morning the last activation in the telephone districts 070, 0781.
The Single Response Center of Sassari has begun to filter the distress and emergency calls from Southern Sardinia.
«With the complete coverage of the single European number throughout the island - declares the regional councilor for health, Carlo Doria - we have reached an important milestone, respecting the stages and the timetable that we had set. A result that was possible to achieve thanks to the work in synergy with Areus and all the institutions involved. We are talking about a modern service, capable of geolocating the user and with multilingual support, which does not only concern healthcare, but all-round emergency management».
The changeover to the Single European Number 112, which began on 29 November from Olbia, continued on 31 January with the activation of the service in Sassari and Macomer and on 14 February in the districts of Nuoro, Oristano and Ogliastra.
Positive feedback from the new system recorded so far on the emergency network, especially in localization and filtering action. This is once again confirmed by the data recorded up to yesterday: of the 28,000 calls received by the CUR of Sassari in these first 3 months, 14,000, or 51 per cent, were found to be appropriate (with a considerable reduction on second-level exchanges). The Technical Operator of the Operations Room codifies the request for help or emergency and immediately activates the second level 118, law enforcement, carabinieri, fire brigade and Captaincy exchanges, transferring details and the precise position of the caller in a few seconds.
There are already numerous Sardinians who have downloaded the "Where are U" App connected to the CUR NUE112. The application is designed especially for the elderly and people with disabilities. With the application, the request for help can be easily forwarded via chat or silent phone call, making the location of the caller more precise.
Numbers 118, 115, 113 and 1530 remain operational in any case: the call is in any case directed to the Single Answering Center of NUE 112 in Sassari.