Three employees of the 108 Ambulance service were suspended on Tuesday in connection with the incident of an emergency vehicle forcibly taking a patient of the Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital to Baleswar instead of the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack on Monday.
The patient Sanat Barik’s parents repeatedly requested the ambulance crew to to stop the vehicle but they did not listen to them. Panicking, Barik’s parents screamed for help following which locals chased the ambulance, intercepted it and handed over the crew to the Bhadrak Town police.
Ziqitza HealthCare Limited, which is operating the ambulance service issued a show-cause notice to driver Sukadev Nayak, helper Mukanta Nayak and EMT Jahedur Rehman Khan and suspended them for negligence in duty following a probe.
In February, the driver of an 108 Ambulance and acre member were suspended for being drunk while transporting a patient from Baripada to the SCB Hospital.