January 26
Boat Ambulance Service Began For Odisha’s Swabhiman Anchal
Most of the villagers were unable to avail ambulance services due to lack of road connectivity. Usually, they carry patients to hospitals on slings or bamboo stretchers through forest areas.
Now, they can take the ailing persons by the ambulance boat. The boat is equipped with medical oxygen cylinders, a drip system, emergency medicines, a doctor, paramedical staff and stretchers.
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Boat Ambulance service will be available seven days a week. Contact numbers for the service will be displayed on the boat ambulance while contact numbers of BSF officers will be circulated among the villagers, said BSF Officials
BSF DIG Sanjay Singh inaugurated the boat ambulance service near Gurupriya bridge in the Swabhiman Anchal. The ambulance service will be available between two ends of Balimela Reservoir and residents of around 35 villages in the cur-off area will be benefitted with the service.
The BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh, who visited the area, had realized that the people of the Swabhimaan Anchal should be provided with medical facilities as patients face a lot of difficulties to cross the reservoir to visit hospital in Chitrakonda, said BSF DIG.
