Members of ‘108’ Ambulance Workers’ Union here allege that ambulances in the district are frequently used for shifting patients from one government hospital to another rather than attending to emergency requirements.
Many a time, emergency cases pertaining to road accidents, burns, suicides and deliveries, are missed out since the paramedics are forced to handle cases deemed to be not so critical in nature, they claim. The union members also allege that ambulances attending to emergency cases are coerced to take back-to-back cases due to a majority of vehicles being engaged in routine transfer of patients between hospitals. |
