Probe sought into 108 ambulance service

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council Chairman Ganesh Shanker Pandey today directed the state government to probe complaints regarding the 108 ambulance service, including its poor response time.
BSP member Lokesh Prajapati complained that the service reached four hours late at a Daulrala health center in Meerut.
Dismissing the claim, leader of the house and health minister Ahmad Hasan said if an ambulance of the 108 service is delayed by more than 20 minutesm a complaint is to be filed. But in the case of the said four-hour delay, he had not received any complaint.
Another BSP member Prashant Chaudhary said the vehicles of the ambulance service were being run like taxi and demanded an inquiry into the matter.

Subsequently, the Chairman asked the government to look into the complaints.
The matter came up for discussion during the question hour when Hasan mentioned the 108 service while replying to a question by Suresh Kumar Tripathi about the number of dengue deaths between July to October 30.
Hasan in response said only three people have died of dengue during the period.