Kalyani, Nov. 30: A Durga puja committee in Nadia’s Kalyani in a noble gesture has come up to donate an “Advance Mobile Medical Life Support Van”, a hi-tech ambulance to a non-profit making emergency medical support service provider curtailing its puja expenditure in consecutive two years.
The ITI Durga Utsab Committee has spent Rs. 45.25 lakh to arrange the “Advance Mobile Medical Life Support Van” fitted with equipment like ventilator, patient monitor, Temporary pacemaker support, syringe pump, oxygen support, Biphasic Defibrillator, Bi-PAP, DFiB-AED, suction machine, spine board, ABG analysis, Biphasic Defibrillator, Patient Monitor, pulse Oximeter, Oxygen and other systems.
Medical Superintendent of College of Medicine & JNM Hospital in Kalyani, Avijit Mukherjee, after checking all machineries inside the van termed it as “Best” in the state.
“There are a number of Life support ambulances in the state. But as far as I know none of those ambulances has such wide life support systems. This can be easily termed and ICU hospital on wheel. Moreover, all such available ambulance service provided by private organization and hospitals are very expensive. But I am surprised to learn that Apanjan will offer service in no profit way”, said Professor Mukherjee.
Speaking to NfN, ITI Durga Utsab Committee secretary Amit Kumar Biswas said, “It is like a dream come true. Our objective was to do something big for people. We noticed that for the last two years Apanjan members have been doing commendable jobs providing support patients. Once we begun planning to buy an advanced ambulance, we decided to hand over it to Apanjan. This turned into reality today”.
Two years ago the ruling party’s Kalyani town committee played an instrumental role to form “Apanjan”, as an outreach initiative in own way pursuing its party line to help the elderly people in the town in health-related distress during the night.
To cater this advance ambulance, Apanjan has created a pool of doctors, technicians, drivers, patient nursing personnel, would on rotational basis render their service.
Apanjan’s chief mentor Trinamul’s Kalyani town committee president Arup Mukherjee said, “We have engaged professional staff for this advanced ambulance service. We have to pay them. So we will charge only the amount that we needed to pay them. We have drawn out cost to cost charge. For example we will charge around Rs.6000 only for transporting a patient from Kalyani to Calcutta. This is a special service for the people in distress. We would have been happier if we could offer it free of cost”.