COVID-19: Ambulance rates capped in Noida
The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration on Saturday mounted an cap on rates charged by ambulances in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, officers mentioned. “People can lodge a complaint on helpline number 18004192211 or 112 if they are overcharged by the ambulance service provider,” District Magistrate Suhas LY mentioned in official order.
According to the order, any ambulance with out oxygen help will cost no more than Rs 1,000 for a most 10 km and Rs 100 for each km thereafter.
Ambulances with oxygen help can cost a most of Rs 1,500 for 10 km and thereafter, Rs 100 per km, it said.
Those with ventilator or Bi-pap help can cost Rs 2,500 for 10 km and thereafter, Rs 200 per km, it added.
The administration has additionally appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ganesh Prasad Saha and Transport Department officer Prashant Tiwari as nodal officers for making certain enforcement of the order and motion in case of any violations.
Meanwhile, the Noida Authority will start from Sunday a facility to refill oxygen cylinders of COVID-19 sufferers who’re in dwelling isolation in villages right here, in accordance to an official assertion.
The choice comes inside days of the same facility being launched for residents of city areas by their Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) and Apartment Owners’ Associations (AOAs) which have arrange isolation centres.
The Noida Authority mentioned that thus far, it has refilled 420 oxygen cylinders and obtained them distributed to 41 isolation centres by RWAs and AOAs from its facility in Sector-93.
“Now we are extending the facility for people in home isolation in villages of Noida. The service would begin from May 9 at the Community Centre in Sector-135 and people can go to the facility for refilling oxygen in case of requirement,” the authority mentioned.
People may have to give an empty cylinder and they are going to be given again a refilled one inside 24 to 36 hours, in accordance to officers.
The time for distribution is 8 am to 11 am, whereas for submitting empty cylinders, folks can go to the power between 3 pm and 6 pm, they mentioned.
The authority appealed to folks to keep COVID-19 protocols like social distancing and carrying face covers and mentioned that for availing the power, one should produce a photocopy of the affected person’s Aadhaar card, a physician’s prescription, oxygen saturation stage report together with the COVID report.
“Transportation charges for the cylinders have been fixed at Rs 500 (D-type big cylinder) and Rs 200 (D-type small cylinder),” it mentioned.
The authority’s choice to introduce the service comes amid a number of folks dealing with a harrowing time to get oxygen cylinders refilled due to elevated demand in wake of a surge in COVID-19 instances.
The transfer by the authority has been hailed by village residents and teams.
Noida Village Residents Association (NOVRA) president Ranjan Tomar mentioned the choice by the Noida Authority, which has 81 villages beneath its jurisdiction of administration, will deliver respite to folks in dwelling isolation in rural areas.
“It’s a laudable step. A regularised system of access to oxygen for patients in home isolation who have been prescribed the same by the doctor would also bring down the demand for beds in hospitals,” he mentioned.
Tomar added that his affiliation had put up a requirement for a regularised system final month itself.
Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar district of western Uttar Pradesh has been badly hit by the pandemic. The district has formally recorded round 300 deaths thus far and has over 8,000 lively instances of lethal an infection.
