Sri Lanka will set up the Emergency Ambulance Health Protection Service on the lines of the Indian model of “108 Emergency Response Services.” This will be done, taking a grant of $ eight million from the Indian government. Initially, the service will be launched in Western and Southern Provinces with 88 ambulances. \r\nSri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sought assistance from India when his counterpart Narendra Modi was here in March. Mr Modi had agreed to help Sri Lanka, as a measure of “enhancing the ties” between the two countries, an official release said, adding that GVKEMRI, the implementing agency of the service in India, would implement the first phase and train 600 persons. |
