City turns vehicle-conversion hub for Mandya, Hassan, Chamarajanagar and Kodagu By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: With the increasing demand for hospital beds as well as ambulances amid the massive surge in COVID-19 cases, there are many enterprising businessmen who have taken up the task of converting tourist and other passenger vehicles into ambulances. And Mysuru…
Mysore/Mysuru: An ambulance driver attached to Trauma Care Centre, Shankar, has shifted over 1,300 Corona positive patients to various hospitals for treatment in one year. But, he is sad that five to six persons have died in the vehicle before reaching the hospital. Talking to SOM, he, however, regretted that people have failed to understand…
Mysore/Mysuru: Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK)Chairman L.R. Mahadevaswamy, who is in-Charge of the District Ambulance Task Force, said that measures have been taken to provide free ambulance service for timely shifting of Corona infected patients to Hospitals and COVID Care Centres. Addressing the Ambulance Task Force meeting at ZP Hall here yesterday, Mahadevaswamy bemoaned that…
Mysore/Mysuru: No matter whether party buffs have made up their mind to welcome New Year with a big bang but GVK EMRI-Arogya Kavacha ‘108’ Ambulance service is fully prepared to deal with any emergency cases on Dec.31 night. Did you know around 30 to 35 percent of road accidents occur during New Year-Eve celebrations than…
Notices served on owners to produce documents Mysore/Mysuru: The officials of the Regional Transport Office (RTO)-West, on Monday, have seized two ambulances with the same registration numbers. The ambulances with registration numbers KA-03-D-399 and KA-03-D-0399 belong to a private ambulance service company. While one ambulance is given to the COVID Care Centre at Town Hall…
Mysore/Mysuru: Co-Operation and District-in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar flagged off an animal ambulance in the city this morning. The State Government was providing such ambulances to all districts for treatment of animals. The ambulance consists of a surgery unit, laboratory, scanning devices, a water tank with 250 litres capacity, operation table weighing 200 kg, air conditioning…
A week ago, the city Police arrested a car driver for deliberately blocking the way of an ambulance carrying an aged person who suffered a heart attack. The patient, 85-year-old Chandrashekar Acharya, was being brought to Narayana Multispecialty Hospital in Mysuru when a Hyundai i20 car moving ahead of the ambulance started driving in a…
Car driver arrested by V.V. Puram Traffic Police; Court imposes a fine of Rs. 11,000 Mysore/Mysuru: The city Police have arrested a car driver for deliberately blocking the way of an ambulance carrying an aged person who suffered a heart attack. The elderly person was being shifted from Chikkamagalur to Mysuru for speciality care. Sadly,…
By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: In the fight against the outbreak of Coronavirus, not only healthcare workers and doctors are taking the lead but ambulance drivers, who are always on a move to attend medical emergencies, are also in the forefront. Every morning, Sharanappa (name changed on request), an ambulance driver in Mysuru, waits for a…
Three persons were seen pushing this ambulance on the busy Sayyaji Rao Road in city this morning. The vehicle had broken down and as the driver requested help, passers-by chipped in to move the vehicle. This picture was clicked by Star of Mysore reader N. Raghavan of Raghulal & Co. Incidentally, when SOM called the…
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