Free ambulance service: AAP Government signs deals with Wipro

NEW DELHI: The AAP government today signed an MoU with tech giant Wipro for procuring and maintaining 110 modern ambulances, besides setting up and operating a modern control room, under its " Home to Hospital Care" Scheme to provide free ambulance services in the national capital.

As per the agreement, Wipro will procure 100 basic life support and 10 advanced life support ambulances. The company will also look after operation and maintenance of ambulances.

According to a senior official, total cost of the project is around Rs 13.90 crore, which includes six-year maintenance and technical support costs.

As per the MoU signed between Delhi Government's Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) and Wipro Ltd., a state-of-the-art modern control room will be set up at east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar area.

"The work of the setting up of the control room will start next week," the senior official said, adding that the modern control room will be functional within 175 days.

"Proposed modern control room is planned as per the best international practices. This new control room will be the most advanced in India, capable to meet the present and future requirements in terms of hardware infrastructure, software application, etc," the official said.

As per the plan, the modern control room will have 20 seats and the facility will be ISO certified. There will be a separate seat for four people which will work as backup control room.

"To maintain data backup of the control room, it will be stored in cloud storage. The high-tech system will also have facility of application based caller location identification system for smart phones and MTNL landline phones to know the exact coordinates of caller on GIS map. For efficient call management, control room will also have a facility of real time 'Call in Queue'," the senior official said.

"We will also be able to locate and track all the ambulances available in the field through GPS. In order to increase the efficiency and prompt response, the nearest available ambulance will be dispatched in case of emergency through Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system," he said.