Dialog’s Rs. 1 per day offer to be a member of Falck Emergency Medical Services
View(s):Falck, with the objective of providing high quality emergency medical care to the entire Western Province by March, recently entered into a strategic partnership with Dialog Axiata.
Falck, the world’s leading Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider and Dialog are now able to integrate Falck’s membership plans to all Dialog subscribers.
“Our objective for Sri Lanka is to offer high quality emergency care to all communities to ensure a reduction in preventable death and disability. A crucial step towards achieving this is identifying a suitable medium that is capable of quickly and efficiently carrying the message across to a large group. As a country with high mobile penetration, and Dialog being the largest mobile operator, this partnership is a necessary step in revolutionising the local healthcare system.” said Jens Poul Madsen, Chief Executive Officer, Falck Sri Lanka in a media release.
With the introduction of mobile membership plans, customers no longer need to visit Falck stations to register, saving time and improving on convenience. Membership registration is quick and simple, type ‘REG [space] NIC or passport number’ and SMS it to 1990 from any Dialog mobile, which comes with a special discount for services. Dialog users can register multiple members from a single mobile number, extending the family package facility. Members will be charged Rs 1 a day, per member which is automatically added to the monthly bill for post-paid customers or deducted from the credit balance for pre-paid customers, entitling them access to all Falck’s services.
“Dialog is privileged to partner Falck – a world acclaimed emergency healthcare service provider, in transforming a life enhancing service such as emergency health care in to a product proposition which is affordable and available to a vast majority of Sri Lankan citizens,” said Dialog Axiata PLC Group Chief Executive Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya on the occasion of launching the Falck-Dialog partnership.