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LUCKNOW: An emergency medical transport service (EMTS) would mean at least 5,000 more jobs, besides strengthening patient referral mechanism.
The fact came to fore on Wednesday, as state project management unit of the National Rural Health Mission opened a financial bid for EMTS. "Two companies have qualified as per the financial criteria. Recommendations relating to the same have been sent to the state government for approval," said Lokesh Kumar, officiating project director, NRHM.
"The selected player would be expected to set up a call centre to take details of the patients in need. The in charge of the call centre would send an ambulance to the place and transport the patient to the nearest health facility. This would involve hiring doctors, paramedics, drivers and other staff for the call centre that would eventually translate into a work force of more than 5,000 people. In short, the project would create jobs," Kumar said.
One of the two companies in the running is GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), which is already running EMTS as '108' service in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Goa, Chennai, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh.
The other player is Ziqitza Healthcare, which is also providing the facility in several states. "Tenders would open in favour of the lowest bidder," said Kumar. He added that the process for technical and financial bids was validated by Ernst and Young, the consultants hired for the purpose.
Planned in 2008-09, EMTS is based on the ideology that if accident victims get medical aid in the first hour, survival rate goes up by 50-60 per cent. Funds to the tune of Rs 18.44 crore were sanctioned to Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and UP for the service. While in others states the service got functional, UP lagged behind.
The NRHM's finance department team, headed by Jaya Bhagat, had criticised the UP government for poor planning on the count. "Prior to April 2011, the state had not thought of operational expenses, sunk costs and timelines," read her report. Even now, ambulances procured by the department in the time period are gathering dust at the manufacturer's stock yard.
But now, the department is in damage control mode and is trying its best to start the project soon. "The project would be implemented in three phases spread across eight months, from the date of signing of agreement," Kumar told TOI.
In the first phase, having a duration of 120 days, 137 ambulances would get operational in Meerut, Saharanpur and Moradabad divisions. The next 60 days would constitute the second phase, wherein 298 ambulances would hit the road in Agra, Lakhimpur, Bareilly, Jhansi, Chitrakoot and Kanpur divisions. In the last leg, the remaining 557 ambulances would get functional.
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