While a bus can reach one to the destination, timely availability of an ambulance can be the difference between life and death. Several e-buses are proposed to be added to the existing fleet of buses in the state.
However, what Goa badly needs is an adequate number of ambulances to shift the road accidents victims and other patients. It is pertinent to note that delay in shifting a pedestrian who met with an accident to the GMC from South Goa District Hospital led to the death of a senior citizen.
Shockingly, the accident victim was shifted by a 108 ambulance which arrived from Shiroda. When it comes to healthcare services, there are few things as critical as ambulance services.
In times of medical emergencies, ambulance services play a pivotal role in saving lives by providing timely medical care and transportation to hospitals.
However, ambulances are not just vehicles that shift the patients. It has to provide primary emergency medical care. Hence these ambulances need to be well-equipped with latest medical equipment like defibrillator, blood pressure monitoring equipment, suction machine, pulse oximetry, oxygen delivery services combined with competent nurses to assist patients who are not physically and emotionally stable.
There seems to be a wide gap between demand and supply as far as ambulance service in the state is concerned.
