BOKARO: District administration has not improved accountability in connection with barriers in the 108 ambulance on Sunday leads to the death of a 77-year-old person at the Community Health Center (CHC) in Bokaro.
But the incident was once again discussing poor maintenance and Armad-ambulance management.
Not only this, many ambulance drivers here will also be without salaries for months.
The government ambulance service was run by a private body called Ziquitza.
The source here said that it had not paid salaries to the driver and staff and also somehow managing fuel costs and vehicle maintenance.
Deputy Commissioner Kuldeep Kumar Chaudhary agreed while conducting an investigation into the death of a patient, identified as Shishir Prasad.
He was in Gomia CHC waiting for the transfer to another hospital but the delay in starting the vehicle caused his death.
He exhaled the last in CHC.
Ziquitza local officials told the deputy commissioner that the ambulance battery had died and they had arranged another vehicle but the patient had died at that time.
During the investigation process, DC learned about the salary of racers and medical assistants who had not been paid in 108 ambulances over the past five months because the bill delivered by the institution to the district health department had not been cleaned.
“I have ordered to release money immediately,” he said.
There are 21 ambulances under 108 services in Bokaro, with 84 employees, including 42 drivers.