When to get urgent help
Symptoms that need emergency care, symptoms that need a doctor soon, and the numbers to call in Delhi NCR.
Not a substitute for medical adviceThis page summarises public-health guidance. Follow the advice of the doctor who knows the person's history. Emergency: 112.
Call 112 (emergency) now if someone has:
- Chest pain, pressure or tightness
- Severe breathlessness, or can’t speak in full sentences
- Blue or grey lips or face
- Fainting or collapse
- Sudden confusion, or drowsiness they can’t be woken from
- Signs of stroke: face drooping, arm weakness, slurred speech
- A child struggling to breathe, with skin pulling in between the ribs, or unable to feed
- Headache, dizziness and nausea in several people in a room with a heater or stove (possible carbon monoxide poisoning: get everyone into fresh air first)
Contact a doctor soon if
- Cough, wheeze or breathlessness is worse than usual and not settling
- A reliever inhaler is needed more often than the action plan allows
- Ankles are swelling, or breathlessness gets worse lying flat (heart failure)
- Unusual tiredness, poor appetite or confusion in an older adult
- A baby is feeding poorly or seems unusually unwell
Numbers
| Number | Service |
|---|---|
| 112 | Emergency (police, fire, ambulance) across all of Delhi NCR |
| 102 | Ambulance in Delhi (CATS, free, 24×7) |
| 108 | Ambulance in Gurugram and Faridabad (Haryana) and in Noida and Ghaziabad (UP) |
| 102 | In Noida and Ghaziabad (UP): ambulance for pregnant women and infants |
Save these in the phone of every older family member and caregiver. When in doubt, call 112: it connects to ambulance services everywhere in NCR.
Some of the red flags above (such as blue lips and confusion) are standard medical warning signs rather than pollution-specific guidance. This page has not yet been reviewed by a clinician.
Keep handy
- A list of medicines and doses, medical conditions and allergies
- The doctor’s phone number and the written action plan
- The nearest hospital with emergency services