Delhi: 700 lives saved due to bike ambulance project, plans afoot for expansion

New Delhi: The bike ambulance project in east Delhi has helped "save 700 lives" since its launch in February and plans are afoot to expand the service across the national capital, the Delhi government said recently

In a statement, the AAP government said the project has received an "overwhelmingly positive response" from residents. Chief Minister tweeted, "I am happy that patients living in narrow bylanes of Delhi are also getting health facilities through bike ambulances. A plan is underway to expand this service to entire Delhi." The pilot project has shown "excellent results," he was quoted as saying in the government statement. "Seven-hundred lives were saved in east Delhi in the last few months the bike ambulances have been operational," the government claimed.

The AAP government had in February flagged off 16 bike ambulances, known as First Responder Vehicles (FRVs), in a district in east Delhi on pilot basis. The facilities available in an FRV include a portable oxygen cylinder, a first-aid kit and dressing materials, air-splints, foldable transfer sheets, Ambu bags, glucometer, pulse oxymeter, a portable manual suction machine, a GPS device and a communication device. According to a government statement, these FRVs are manned by trained ambulance manpower.