July 20, 2013
To provide advanced and basic life support to patients, Chandigarh will soon get ten new ambulances under the Dial 108 model scheme of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Dial 108 model is an emergency response system, primarily designed to attend to patients of critical care and trauma and accident victims.
At present, all ambulances are under the 102 model. Under this, services essentially consist of basic patient transport aimed to cater to the needs of pregnant women and children though benefits to others are not excluded. For example, free transfer from home to facility, inter facility transfer in case of referral and drop for mother and children.
At present, the Chandigarh health department has ten ambulances which are deputed at various civil hospitals in the city. Manimajra Civil Hospital has two ambulances, Government Civil Block Hospital, Sector 22, has one and the remaining seven ambulances are with Government Multi Specialty Hospital, Sector 16.
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