With an aim to provide health service at the door steps of the people Uttar Pradesh government has decided to provide free ambulance services to pregnant women from next month.
Announcing this at a programme organized to take a vow to make Uttar Pradesh a polio- free state Health Minister Ahmed Hassan said people can avail the service by dialing 102 in which a pregnant woman would be taken to government hospital from her home free of cost, he said.
"The similar facility would be available for other patients who would be referred to other hospitals from government hospitals. The new facility would start from May 1, he said.
This is the second ambulance service facility provided to the patients as this government has already launched 108 Samajwadi Ambulance Service where too patients would be transported from one home to hospital.
"The 102 ambulance service would be exclusively for pregnant women and for those patients who are referred to other government hospitals," he said and added that these services would only be available for state-run hospitals.