Printable emergency information card

If your parent is taken ill at home, at a relative’s house or on the road, the people helping need a few facts fast: who they are, what conditions and allergies they have, what medicines they take and whom to call. Fill this card in once, print it, and keep copies where they will be found.

Reviewed 26 October 2026. Researched and drafted with AI assistance, checked against the sources listed below.

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Fill in the card

About the person

Full name (important)

Date of birth or age

Languages spoken

Home address or area

Health information

Blood group (only if known from a test report)

Medical conditions (important)

Allergies (write "None known" if none) (important)

Current medicines (or "See medicine chart")

Hearing, vision, memory or mobility needs

Doctor, hospital and cover

Doctor or clinic

Doctor or clinic phone

Preferred hospital

Health insurance or scheme card (name of scheme; keep the card number off this sheet)

Who to call

Emergency contact 1: name and relation (important)

Emergency contact 1: phone (important)

Emergency contact 2: name and relation

Emergency contact 2: phone

Ambulance or emergency number used in your areaIndia’s national emergency number is 112 (police, fire and ambulance). Write it here, and add a local ambulance or hospital number too if the family uses one.

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Preview

This is what prints. Cut around the border and fold it for a wallet, or keep the whole sheet on the fridge.

Emergency information

Fill in the form above and the card appears here.

Tips for a card that helps

Write allergies even if there are none. “None known” tells a doctor something; a blank tells them nothing.
Use plain words for conditions: “diabetes, takes insulin”, “had a stroke in 2023”, “pacemaker”.
Medicines: list them, or write “see medicine chart” and keep the printed chart with the card.
Two contacts who answer their phones, ideally one living nearby.
Emergency numbers: write 112, India’s national emergency number, and any local ambulance or hospital number the family uses.
Date it, and check it whenever a medicine, doctor or phone number changes.
Where to keep copies: in the wallet or handbag, on the fridge door, in the hospital document folder, and a photo on a family member’s phone.

These tips are our own practical suggestions. The details about 112 come from the Government source below.

Source: PIB backgrounder, November 2025, checked 26 October 2026.

For non-emergency help, information or support, call the national Elder Line on 14567, toll-free, run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Hours: 8 AM to 8 PM, all seven days (as announced in 2021; it is classed as a non-emergency service). More helplines.

Source: PIB release on Elder Line, September 2021, checked 26 October 2026.

Sources

International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women: Building a Safer, More Inclusive Digital India for Women (backgrounder, 24 November 2025; ERSS 112 section). Press Information Bureau, Government of India. Checked 26 October 2026.
Elder Line 14567 press release (29 September 2021). Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Checked 26 October 2026.

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