The ‘108 Sanjeevani Express’ service in Chhattisgarh has helped save more than 5.24 lakh lives during the past two-and-a-half years by timely transport of those requiring emergency medical care to the various hospitals in the State.
The service which was launched in January 2011, had 49,788 cases related to accidents during the aforesaid period. This part, the Sanjeevani Express also helped with prompt transport of delivery cases, fire incident victims besides assisting the police in tranporting injured people in distress. The Sanjeevani Express transported more than 1.98 lakh pregnant women for enabling safe delivery in the hospitals during the said period.
The total number of such cases handled by the service was 3, 896 which included cases where the delivery was performed within the Ambulance while on way to the hospital. The other cases handled by the services included those injured in violence in which a total of 8,904 persons were taken to the hospital besides 4,709 victims of fire incidents.