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Bike Ambulance Project Saved 700 Lives, Plans Afoot To Expand It To Entire City: Arvind Kejriwal

The Pilot Project Has Shown 'excellent Results', Arvind Kejriwal Was Quoted As Saying In The Government Statement.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Raghwendra Shukla | Updated on: 20 Sep 2019, 11:34:50 PM
The AAP government had in February flagged off 16 bike ambulances. (Image Credit: IANS)

New Delhi:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that the bike ambulance project in east Delhi has helped ‘save 700 lives’ since its launch in February and his government is now planning to expand the service across the national capital. In a statement, the AAP government said the project has received ‘overwhelmingly positive response’ from residents.

“I am happy that patients living in narrow bylanes of Delhi are also getting health facilities through bike ambulances. A plan is underway to expand this service to entire Delhi,” Kejriwal tweeted.

The pilot project has shown “excellent results,” Kejriwal was quoted as saying in the government statement.

“Seven-hundred lives were saved in east Delhi in the last few months the bike ambulances have been operational,” the government claimed.

"The service received an overwhelmingly response from residents. The service was meant to give last-mile connectivity to emergency healthcare services to people who live in congested areas where an ambulance can not enter," said an official.

The AAP government had in February flagged off 16 bike ambulances, known was First Responder Vehicles (FRVs), in a district in east Delhi on pilot basis.

The facilities available in an FRV include a portable oxygen cylinder, a first-aid kit and dressing materials, air-splints, foldable transfer sheets, ambu bags, glucometer, pulse oxymeter, a portable manual suction machine, a GPS device and a communication device. According to a government statement, these FRVs are manned by trained ambulance manpower.

“These FRVs can reach streets and areas in high traffic zones and around JJ clusters. They are equipped to give primary and emergency care so that organs of the patients are not damaged and it helps the patient to stabilise until the ambulance arrives,” it said.

The service has received an overwhelmingly positive response from the residents of Delhi. It is targeted to give last-mile connectivity to emergency healthcare services to people who live in congested areas, where ambulances could not enter in the past, the statement said.

“A large number of people in Delhi live in unauthorised colonies or other such areas where streets are very narrow. I was very concerned about how to provide better emergency healthcare to the people living in these colonies. With this in mind, the Bike Ambulance service was launched... Delhi government is planning to extend the service to the entire city,” Kejriwal was quoted as saying in the statement.

With PTI Inputs

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First Published : 20 Sep 2019, 11:34:50 PM

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