District officials flag off the bike ambulance service in Deoghar on Saturday
RANCHI: In a first, Deoghar district administration on Saturday rolled out five bike ambulances to wheel-in medical help or ferry Covid-19 patients to hospitals from hard-to-reach areas where normal ambulances cannot visit. Deputy commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri along with SP Anjani Kumar Sinha jointly flagged off the new facility from the district collectorate building.
Bhajantri said the ambulances will be used in rural and urban areas in the temple town as per requirement. “Extending medical help in minimum time is an important aspect of Covid management at a time when the second wave is killing more people. Hence, we thought of this idea to address the geographical challenges of a few areas and also address issues of ambulance shortage,” he said.