Online lottery company Lottoland has chosen the Irish Red Cross as their chosen charity for 2018. At the same time it has struck a deal to digitally makeover the charity’s ambulance fleet nationwide.
By digitising all traditional paper-based administration for the charity’s entire fleet of 130 emergency ambulances, each ambulance crew will save 1.5 hours per day which equates to 71,175 personnel hours per year. This potentially life-saving project will kick off with Lottoland donating the entire sales proceedings of the Friday night EuroMillions draw of €174m, on February 21, to deliver the estimated €50,000 needed to deliver the ambulance digital transformation.
Discarding the old paper-based management systems will dramatically improve efficiency around such critical tasks as ambulatory care reports, patient care reports, lifesaving equipment checks and daily fleet management. Lottoland’s Irish country manager Graham Ross (pictured left) said: “This is our most ambitious CSR charity project in Ireland to date and our first full scale partnership with a major Irish charity. We are delighted to be partnering with the Irish Red Cross, who do so much for medical care, the elderly and disaster relief at home and abroad.”
Irish Red Cross’ national director of units Tony Lawlor added: "The new tablet devices will greatly enhance the ability of Irish Red Cross volunteers on local event ambulance cover nationwide to report on patient care securely and in real time. Not only that but the devices will allow us record vehicle pre-event checks, log volunteer hours and confirm crew cover so this valuable sponsorship will really make a difference to the quality of event cover and reporting that the Irish Red Cross provides in future."
