Advanced 108 ambulance and prototype mother and child care vehicle launched in Hyderabad on Friday. —Photo G. Krishnaswamy
The GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) that runs the popular ‘108’ service has, till August-end, handled 45 lakh pregnancy-related emergencies across 11 States and two Union Territories, including 13 lakh in Andhra Pradesh.
On Friday, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy flagged off a fleet of ambulances that also had wheels with a difference – Prototype Mother and Child Care Vehicles, exclusively meant for use to drop back at their homes mothers and newborns 48 hours after an institutional delivery. — Special Correspondent
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