MANGALDAI, Feb 22 - Mrityunjoy 108 emergency ambulance service since its launch in Darrang district on February 26, 2009 has registered altogether 2,26,317 emergency phone calls. Among these phone calls, 79,681 calls are pregnancy related, 13,540 for road accidents and 2,976 phone calls were against cases of suicide and poisoning, among others.
This figure was disclosed by GVK-EMRI, the implementing agency of the services here on Thursday. The organisation in a bid to improve their services on the basis of the feedback and experience of their beneficiaries in the district had organised a district-level beneficiary meet titled �E Lite� at the Youth Club auditorium here.
The meet was attended by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Darrang (Headquarter) Mamoni Hazarika and several senior officials of the GVK-EMRI, including its Market Communication Head Dhurjyoti Prasad, Regional Manager Bhaskar Jyoti Das, Programme Manager Kaushik Kashyap and Emergency Management Executive Sarup Kalita, among others.
Several beneficiaries shared their real life experiences on how they were saved by the service. They appealed to the public to avail this service in need, but at the same time abstain from making any hoax call as it would deprive the services to genuinely needy patients.
Meanwhile, the other ambulance service, especially for pregnant mothers and their newborn in government hospitals called �Adorani� implemented by the same organisation recorded a total of 65,855 requests for eight vehicles since its inception in the district on January 2012, the meet was told.