Hyderabad :

We are aware of emergency 108 services that transport pregnant women to government hospitals. However, post-pregnancy, women are left to fend for themselves, and carry their newborns to their destinations with utmost care.

This would be a thing of the past now. Health minister Dr C Laxma Reddy announced on Tuesday that the government will soon launch vehicles that would assist a newly-delivered woman in reaching her house safe and secure.

“For this, we are going to launch a service – 102 – on the name of ‘Amma Odi’. Forty such vehicles will be launched soon,” he said. These vehicles will be kept available at remote areas, villages and agency areas and will arrive at government hospitals with just a phone call. The service would be free of cost.

Meanwhile, the government would also introduce a fleet of 50 vehicles that transport the bodies of poor people who die in government hospitals to their respective homes or to graveyards. The vehicles will be kept at Gandhi, Osmania and Niloufer hospitals in Hyderabad and two vehicles each will be kept at all the district headquarter hospitals.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express News Service / June 01st, 2016