Uncared for Ambulances: Stranded in Kamorta as Authorities Neglect Their Important Goal Put up Picture Op

Tarun Karthick

Campbell Bay, ninth June 2023

In a regarding flip of occasions, two out of three ambulances, which had been flagged off by Mr. Keshav Chandra, Chief Secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on eighth February 2023, are nonetheless gathering mud at Kamorta. While the designated ambulance for Kamorta is being utilized, the autos supposed to serve the Islands of Katchal and Teressa haven’t been deployed but. 

Four months have handed for the reason that flag-off ceremony, but the ambulances stay stranded at Kamorta because of the lack of preparations for his or her transportation. Local residents declare that quite a few authorities and personal ships able to carrying the ambulances to Katchal and Teressa had been accessible throughout this era. However, the authorities have uncared for to facilitate their switch, leaving the autos idle.

Concerns are mounting among the many residents, who concern that these important emergency belongings will deteriorate with out ever being put to make use of. The Directorate of Health Services, chargeable for overseeing the transportation, seems detached to the urgency of the state of affairs, prompting questions relating to the aim of procuring belongings that can’t successfully improve healthcare amenities for the Island’s residents.

It is price noting that the ambulances had been promptly transported to Kamorta for the flag-off ceremony, however plainly as soon as the photo-op was over and the pictures had been revealed on the entrance web page of the Official Mouthpiece of the Administration, the officers overlooked the first goal behind buying the ambulances – serving the frequent man.

Local residents are calling on the authorities to rectify this negligence promptly, guaranteeing that the ambulances are promptly transported and put into service on the designated Islands. Delaying their deployment solely hampers efforts to supply higher healthcare amenities to the residents, undermining the very goal of procuring these belongings within the first place.