Helplines didn't respond, ambulance driver demanded phone as service charge from victim
A day after dna reported how the private ambulance driver, who after taking the highway accident victim to a hospital, had demanded a BlackBerry from her accompanying friends as his service charges before allowing the patient to alight, Indira Group of Institutes chairperson Tarita Shankar said that the college would start a 24X7 ambulance service for students.
Ishita Singh Rao, a management student of Indira Group of Institutes, was travelling with her friends to Lonavla when the steering wheel of their speeding car got locked and the vehicle toppled twice before hitting a truck on the opposite lane on the old Pune-Mumbai highway on Saturday morning.
Another group of friends who were travelling alongside the victim’s car managed to get the injured student out while four of her friends died on the spot. After dialing the helpline in vain for 30 minutes, they got a private ambulance from Lonavla.
The ambulance driver had demanded the BlackBerry as the friends accompanying Ishita fell short of the charges by Rs350.
After dna reported the incident, Shankar said that she was enraged at the inhuman act of the ambulance driver and apathy of authorities as helplines didn’t respond for 30 minutes.
“I was shocked at how inhuman people can be. If I had met the ambulance driver, I would surely have taught him humanity. Even the students of our college are enraged. But rather than wasting our time in protesting, we thought of doing something constructive, ” she said.
“While we have been conducting seminars regularly on safe driving, we now plan to keep two ambulances ready for our students in emergencies, especially during the nights,” she said.
The institute already has two ambulances for students for emergencies during the daytime.
“We shall start a special helpline linked to two ambulances for our students post-Dasera. If they are stuck in such situations, we would prefer if they called us rather than depending on helplines that don’t respond and vultures like the ambulance driver. We would also extend help to others who are stuck in such situations,” she said.
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