In yet another incident of ambulance failure, a woman from Ambha who had sustained electric shock could not get timely treatment at the JAH Hospital due to the unavailability of an ambulance.
Initially, she was taken to the government hospital in Ambha, but seeing her critical condition the doctors referred her to the JAH. However, the relatives of the patient could not get the services of an ambulance despite calling 108 many times and had to shift her to JAH in a private vehicle.
The medical services in Gwalior are far less than what is desired has been once again proved right after many cases of ambulances failure have been reported in the past few days.
The much sought after 108 ambulances seem to have failed their purpose as most of these vehicles have neither emergency medicines nor attending medical staff.
Now, the patients have to content with server connection failures too, resulting in the emergency numbers getting offline.
The ambulance server was down for about three hours on Wednesday and patients could not get the services of an ambulance. Most of the patients had to depend on private vehicles to reach the hospital.
Speaking to the media persons Dr Mudul Saxena, the CMHO of Gwalior said that IP Nivaria had been appointed as Nodal Officer to improve the working of the 108 ambulances.
He added that the situation regarding medicines and medical equipment in the ambulances has improved.
He also said that he will look into the matter related to server failure and do the needful to rectify the situation.
Kamod Singh Yadav, the District in-charge of 108 ambulances admitted that there was a server failure for about three hours on Wednesday and that patients could not make calls. He added that he and his team had made a few substitute arrangements to shift the critically ill patients to various hospitals.
IP Nivaria, the Nodal Officer said that he has asked for a report from the District in-charge regarding the server down and the substitute arrangements to shift patients.