Image taken on Nov. 28, 2015 shows officials of different ministries and secretariats of security taking part in a preventive meeting of the Emergency Operations Committee (COE), at the headquarters of the ECU 911, in Quito, capital of Ecuador. (Photo: Xinhua/Santiago Armas)
A four-year-old girl in the port city of Manta had been trapped in debris for eight hours before she was rescued after a deadly earthquake jolted the Pacific coast of Ecuador on Saturday.
The girl was almost at her last gasp when she was rescued, but all nearby hospitals were either too-badly damaged or too overcrowded to treat her.
During the emergency crisis the rescue team turned to the ECU911 system made by Chinese experts, and the girl was transported to a hospital in Guayaquil City of Guayas Province by a military helicopter.
She is now out of danger after timely treatment, Minister of Security and Coordination Cesar Navas told Xinhua.
During this deadly earthquake, China's ECU911 emergency warning and monitoring system has helped save a number of lives, Navas added.
The ECU 911, designed and built by Chinese companies, connects Ecuador's various security and disaster relief agencies, such as police forces, fire departments, transportation, paramedic units and the Red Cross, to aid reaction speed to emergencies via a single telephone number, 911.
By Tuesday afternoon, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador had claimed 499 lives, leaving over 4027 injured and 231 missing. Covering the entire country via 16 command and control centers, the ECU911 is playing a key role in handling emergency needs from the quake-struck regions and coordinating rescue work.
ECU911 is an integrated system of police services, video surveillance with thousands of cameras, GPS, geographic information, and a smart analysis of resources, among others.
In ECU911's headquarters in Quito, the red lights of the several telephones keep flashing with incoming calls. Information like the caller's location, a digital map and emergency briefings pop up within seconds on monitors after the SOS call. With all this data at their disposal, coordinators can efficiently allocate resources and arrange rescue missions.
During the first two days after the killer quake, ECU911 handled at least 17,888 emergency cases.
