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Bengaluru civic body to add more ambulances amid pandemic

Bengaluru civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika (BBMP), will add more ambulances after it arranged 250 vehicles amid the Covid pandemic and clamor for more, an official said today.

"More vehicles (ambulances and tempo traveler vehicles) will be added this week," said BBMP Commissioner B.H. Anil Kumar.

Till yesterday, the civic body had arranged 250 ambulances and tempo traveler vehicles in the city's eight zones of Bengaluru East, Bengaluru West, Bengaluru South, Rajarajeshwarinagara, Dasarahalli, Yelahanka, Mahadevapura, and Bommanahalli.

Among the 250 vehicles, 71 are ambulances and 179 tempo traveler vehicles.

Meanwhile, several cases of ambulance shortage and long waiting time has emerged in the city.

A 64-year-old man from Kamakshipalya had waited all Sunday for an ambulance, making several calls to 108 helpline to only succumb in one of them which arrived very late as he had suffered breathing difficulty.

On Friday, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said the government will arrange 400 ambulances in the city, two in each of the 198 civic wards..

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