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108 free emergency ambulance service begins

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The state health department launched the free 108 emergency ambulance service, run in partnership with GVK-EMRI.

In 2008 the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, under the state Department of Health and Family Welfare, started the free 108 emergency ambulance service. It is operated as a public-private partnership with GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute. By 2018 the fleet had grown to 936 vehicles, including neonatal and advanced life support ambulances, and the service received around 15,000 calls a day. Ambulances are deployed on the basis of accident hotspots, population density and terrain.

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