As a young casualty doctor, Farhan Qureshi kept seeing the same tragedy: accident victims who could have lived if they had reached hospital twenty minutes sooner.
In 2015 he trained a dozen bike-riding friends in basic trauma care and gave them first-aid kits. They coordinated through a phone group and reached accident sites faster than any ambulance in the old city lanes.
A network of neighbours
LifeLine Riders now has 1,200 trained volunteers across nine cities and a fleet of 40 low-cost ambulances. Every volunteer completes a 30-hour certified course.
The golden hour does not wait for paperwork. We decided we would not either.
The network has answered more than 38,000 emergencies. “Heroes are just neighbours with training,” Farhan says.
