A family of nine including a newly-wed couple used an ambulance to return from Ghaziabad to Muzaffarnagar -- approx 80 km away -- amid lockdown. All of them disguised as patients used the medical emergency vehicle to travel between Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar's Khatauli. A case has been registered.
In a case highlighting a lack of adequate infrastructure and connectivity, villagers of Daraparti Panchayat of Vizianagaram district carried a 22-year-old man suffering from jaundice for about 12 kilometers in a makeshift stretcher to take him to an ambulance.
A 25-year-old actress from the Marathi film industry and her newborn baby died within hours in Maharashtra's Hingoli district on Sunday apparently due to unavailability of ambulance, a police official said on Monday.
The 23-year-old tribal woman who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy was admitted to a government hospital in Bangiriposi.
As per the preliminary information provided by the police, the ambulance was carrying a patient to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi when it was hit by the truck.
The higher penalties will be applicable throughout India. The goal is to create a fear of law that ensures decrease of traffic violations.
Chameli, a resident of Kotwali police station area of Banda district, was waiting for an ambulance at Baberu bypass on Friday night. Till midnight, the ambulance did not reach, Superintendent of Police Ganesh Prasad Saha said on Saturday.
As the ambulance had to cross from Hirerayanakumpi village to Gugal village on the other side of the riverbank, its driver asked Venkatesh, who was present on the spot, if he knew where the submerged road bridge was to ride over and if he could guide him.
To save lives, a group of Kashmiri doctors named "Kashmera" based in the US in collaboration with the state government and few NGOs, have launched a programme to provide ambulances to ferry the injured to the two premier hospitals in Srinagar.
Health Department of the Delhi government has written to the police commissioner seeking action against a section of CATS ambulance staff who have allegedly damaged some emergency vehicles and been obstructing works of others, officials said on Tuesday.
A critically ill boy died after he was allegedly refused an ambulance by the state-run district hospital in Shahjahanpur.
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Kudiyam, a resident of Toynar village, had fallen ill at her ashram school in nearby Matwada village and was admitted in Bijapur district hospital on August 22, Dr Pujari told PTI.
Speaking to India TV, the Congress leader claimed that the ambulance was stuck due to bad road conditions and not the rally. However he promised to help out the family through necessary means.
A two-and-half-month-old baby died yesterday due to a delay in treatment after the door of the ambulance, in which he was brought to a local hospital, failed to open because of a malfunction, alleged the infant's father.
The incident took place when the ambulance, carrying the baby to Raipur's Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Hospital for cardiac surgery, malfunctioned.
92 ambulances of the 108 service and 125 ambulances of the 102 service are off the roads due to the strike, which is causing great hardship to the patients
The Chilkalguda police arrested two cattle thieves involved in more than 150 cases on Monday.
The local police have arrested the driver and have registered a case under IPC Section 334 (Act endangering life or personal safety of others).
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