The Saudi Red Crescent Authority stated that they take advantage of data and statistics as a fundamental part of their work in order to conduct analysis, decision making, setting plans and goals and measuring results. Those statistics would represent the core of the ambulatory work and a pivot tool in achieving our message of saving lives and alleviating suffering.

SRCA Spokesman, Abdulaziz Al Suwaine stated, on the occasion of the World Statistics which is celebrated on 20th of October each year, that the Authority is mainly counting on statistics and data collected throughout the year to be compared to the previous year for measuring progress in achieving plans and objectives of the Authority. He also indicated that such a significant process is considered a successful international management method.

He added that the number of emergency cases responded to by the Authority since 2022 until the end of last September is one of the main examples of the data and statistics that the Authority is using in its work, as the number reached 800,143 cases.

The Authority also collected detailed information on ambulatory transfers to hospitals and health institutes by automating the entire processes in a way that enables the ideal use of human and material resources and having reports and statistics of the covered events available at the Sahem platform, which holds data on 2865 events for ambulatory transfer services until now that were attended by 4746 emergency medical staff and 1246 ambulance vehicles responding to 804 clients distributed in the whole regions of the Kingdom.

He continued that the importance of statistics and data is obviously shown in the work conducted by the Authority in following up with the air ambulance service as they are considered a vital factor in the success of this service. The air ambulance service was initiated with 6 aircrafts of various types including 2 fixed wing air ambulances dedicated for transferring patients between hospitals and 4 helicopters for dealing with emergency cases.

Al Suwaine also stated SRCA air ambulance service achieved 787 flight hours, including 518 hours on mission saving lives and 269 hours for air ambulance service in response to 403 received emergency reports, as 308 cases transferred of 203 male and 105 female patients.

For training and community education statistics, Al Suwaine also stressed that the Authority generated statistics for first aid courses "Ambassador of life course" containing 41172 individuals since the beginning of the year, divided between 16333 female and 24839 male beneficiaries in addition to 278436 beneficiaries from community educational lectures of 83978 female and 194458 male beneficiaries.

He continued stating that volunteering activities highly benefiting from statistical works for measuring the achieved objectives from the awareness programs for the community; as the Authority announced early this year the availability of 17544 volunteering opportunities through SRCA volunteering platform "Volunteer with us". The percentage of beneficiaries from female volunteers reached 54% for an enormous number of visitors to the platform that exceeded 3 million and 688 thousand visitors.