GVK 108 Ambulance Service has won people’s trust. Its pilots are doing outstanding work. This was stated by Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta while felicitating pilots of the service here today. Gupta said that he will give away `5,000 each to all felicitated pilots of GVK 108 Ambulance Service from his discretionary fund.
He said that if a pilot’s efforts save a person’s life that will be the biggest achievement. He said that the State Government has ensured outstanding works in every sector. As a result, people now search name of Madhya Pradesh from top to bottom in the list of development data while it was vice versa 10 years ago.
Gupta felicitated pilots of the service including Amjad Khan (Indore), Ajay Sharma (Gwalior), Faheem Khan and Abhijeet Sen (Bhopal), Satish Rohit (Sagar), Sunil Gautam (Damoh), Ashok Mewada (Sehore) and Rajiv Rawat (Hoshangabad). The company should expand the service without making any compromise with quality, he added.
Ambulance service Chief Operating Officer Devendra Singh informed that it was started from July 16, 2009. So far, service has been provided to 5 lakh persons saving lives of 31 thousand persons. As many as 41,000 deliveries have been facilitated by the service. At present, 454 ambulances are being operated in the State. Their number will increase to 604 by June. The ambulance service is being operated with the cooperation of the State Government.
A special ambulance will be operated in every district of the State. These ambulances are being fitted with ventilator and multi para monitor. This ambulance will function like a medical unit. On an average, the response time of this ambulance will be 24 minutes.