Badnawar (Madhya Pradesh): The 108 ambulance service along with the emergency care system here at civil hospital is in poor condition and has been crying for attention for a long time now.
The ambulances were found to be in poor condition with some of them having broken doors. They were sent to district headquarters for repair but remained in poor condition even after repair.
The life-saving ambulance service which was launched by local MLA Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat around eight years ago remains in a bad state. Patients are left with no option but to be dependent on the ambulance attached to other places (hospitals).
Thus even though the ambulance may arrive when called to rescue a patient, it would be able to do no more than any other vehicle — just ferry a person to hospital and also take longer time to arrive.
The hospital needs more efficient ambulances to reduce the response time to save more lives. The question, therefore, is whether the town has an effective and accessible emergency care system in place, starting with the first necessity of the needy persons.
