HC asks Delhi to state reasons for not having sufficient ambulance

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New Delhi, Jan 9 (UNI) Expressing anguish over non-availability of sufficient number of ambulances in the Capital, the Delhi High Court today asked the Delhi Government to state the reasons in an affidavit within a week.

A division bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and S N Agrawal asked the Director Health Services of the Delhi Government to file an affidavit stating the reasons for non-availability of ambulances with various government hospitals and Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS).

The Director was directed to state the policy to regulate the private ambulance operators in the Capital, who were charging an exhorbitant price from the patients.

Counsel and Petitioner Varun Goswami submitted before the court that due to non-availability of government ambulances, people were hiring prvate ambulances at a higher price.

The CATS has only 100 ambulances and many of them were not in an operative stage, alleged Mr Goswami.

The number of ambulances did not increase to 425, despite an assurance by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, said Mr Goswami.

The Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital had been asked to clarify the allegations that ambulances had been misused by the staff by January 15, the next date of hearing.

The Medical Superintendent of GTB Hospital was directed to state in the affidavit the reasons for not wanting to have more ambulances for the patients.

UNI

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