Akhilesh Yadav flagged off 300 air-conditioned 102 Ambulances

With an aim to strengthen medical health system in the state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav flagged off 300 air-conditioned 102 Ambulances with a resolve to take health care facility to every door step.

The new AC Ambulance would be the part of the 972 Ambulances launched early this year.launching this new 102 Ambulances here at his official residence on Wednesday Yadav claimed that Uttar Pradesh is the first state in the country to have such a big fleet of Ambulances.The government already has over 1000 Ambulance under 108 Samajwadi Ambulances while a separate 102 Ambulances have been introduced to ferry pregnant women, lactating mothers and their new born babies.

The UP government will introduce around 700 more new AC 102 Ambulances by September next, Yadav declared.“The health system in the state has made a remarkable improvement in the past two years as all the health indicators like MMR and IMR have improved to some extent,” he said.

The Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) which was 300 per 1000 pregnant women in the state in 2011 has come down to 252 in 2012. Similarly the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) which was 57 per 1000 in 2011 came down to 53 in 2012.

The UP government has already made all pathology tests, X-rays and medicine free at the government hospitals. And now we have fleet of ambulances to ferry the petients to hospitals so that they can get quality treatment at the earliest, Chief Minister said.State Health minister Ahmed Hasan said that government is making all out effort to provide better health facilities in the state and claimed that 16 lakh patients have got free pathology tests in the hospitals during the last 5 months.

He also blamed that previous BSP government for earning bad name in the health department over the NRHM scam and appreciated the CM to order prosecution of 72 doctors found involved in the scam.