A news item carried in a section of the press mentions that Rescue 1122 received over 13 million distress calls in 8 months. A period of 8 months consists of 345600 minutes (8*30*24*60), and if we divide total calls by total minutes, we get 38.518 calls per minutes. Is it humanely possible to attend to so many calls in sixty seconds? Some clarification is needed -MIR TABASSUM MAIRAJ, Islamabad, September 15.