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TopicAmbulance service

Topic: Ambulance service

In Delhi NCR, new ambulance helpline promises prompt medical response, within 15 min. How it’ll work

Private emergency healthcare provider Zenzo has collaborated with Delhi Traffic Police to operate 671 ambulances to make the region ‘emergency ready’, while also launching a ‘5G ambulance’.

Move over Zomato’s 10-min delivery, Hyderabad platform aims to provide ambulance in 8 mins

StanPlus, with fleet of over 3,000 ambulances, currently promises to provide ambulances to patients within 15 minutes, but envisions a centralised 911-style service in India too.

In Alipurduar, the bridal ‘palki’ is now an oxygen-equipped lifesaver for far-flung villages

Started a month ago by Alipurduar DM SK Meena, ‘ambulance service’ serves 11 villages located at a height of 4,600 ft in a core area of north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve.

70% Indians overcharged for ambulances, 36% for oxygen during 2nd Covid wave, survey finds

Survey by LocalCircles reveals that half of those who overpaid for ambulances were charged five times the regular price.

How Ziqitza Healthcare paramedics ensured safe transfer and care of 44,000 Covid patients

Ziqitza Healthcare Limited, which runs 108 Ambulance services, has been one of the leading players in India’s emergency medical services industry since 2005.

This 1930 Bihar hospital could save more lives, but a ‘killer’ railway crossing won’t let it

About 60% of India-Nepal trade passes through Raxaul. The price is paid by patients who die waiting for trains to pass at railway crossing on the way to Duncan Hospital, a Covid facility.

108 ambulances operated by Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd improved response time with GPS technology

Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd has improved the response time of ambulances through real-time monitoring.

Better than a ‘proper’ ambulance — how Karimul Hak’s free bike service won him a Padma Shri

In ‘Bike Ambulance Dada’, Biswajit Jha writes about how Karimul Hak saved 4,000 lives with his free bike-ambulance service.

Saving lives or driving the dead, Covid ambulance drivers slog it out without rest or raise

Three ambulance drivers in Delhi speak about the difficult working conditions, hostile neighbours, and the experience of carrying the dead.

Maharashtra plans to use Mumbai seaways to launch boat ambulance for remote villages

The health department has approved the project to set up the water ambulance service between Gateway of India in south Mumbai to Mandwa in Raigad district.

On Camera

India has 291 homoeopathic colleges in 2026, says Minister of Ayush Prataprao Jadhav

The World Homoeopathy Day 2026 is an opportunity to reassure that traditional medical systems remain accessible, and integral to a resilient, inclusive, and future-ready healthcare system.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation in play: Air Headquarters to control strategic assets  

Exclusive: Theaterisation proposal has been stuck over how limited air assets would be divided. Consensus reached on division of air assets among 3 theatres, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.