Traffic, availability of ambulances in the vicinity and a lack of an organised effort to ensure ambulance availability across various locations are significant challenges that need to be overcome.
On an average, the distance takes over 90 minutes to cover owing to the traffic. But when the police, public and local television channels joined hands, the ambulance carrying the child reached the airport in less than 26 minutes.
ResQ Charitable Trust in Pune rescues and treats injured and sick animals and birds, including dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, elephants, cows and monkeys from across the city.
The man who runs an ambulance service in a nearby village used it to deliver over 20,000 litres of water to the affected areas, bringing water to as many as sixty households in just two days.
Created by healthcare startup CallAmbulance, the initiative aims to equip citizens with basic medical skills to respond to emergencies in their vicinity.
Having an emergency at home and trying to arrange transport to the hospital in that mental state can be horrifying. Two former Google employees have decided to make that mental stress a thing of the past with their new offering – Ambee.
Karimul Haque spends half his earnings to operate Karimul Bike Ambulance, a free bike service in Dhalabari and has reportedly saved over 3,000 citizens.