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High Court directive on ambulance registration

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the State Transport Department not to register ambulances unless the hospitals concerned submit certificates from the Health Department of the Government that they were to be registered as such.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice H.R. Malhotra further ordered that a three-member committee consisting of two government doctors and the Deputy Health Secretary of the State Government issue the certificate.

The Bench passed the orders while hearing public interest litigation by advocate Varun Goswami highlighting the shortage of ambulances in the Centralised Accident Trauma Services (CATS) to tackle increasing accidents in the Capital.

Mr. Goswami had urged the Court to direct the Transport Department to register ambulances under a separate category and the Health Department to certify the ambulances before they are registered.

The practice at present is to register ambulances under the category of commercial vehicles, he stated.

The Court also sought a report from the Government on the death of a child of a juvenile home at Narela in North-West Delhi because of alleged failure of the Department of Social Welfare to provide an ambulance to rush him to a hospital.

The Bench sought the report on the basis of a media report. Meanwhile, counsel for CATS informed the Court that his client would add 30 more ambulances within a month to its present fleet of 35.The PIL said that at present CATS had only 35 ambulances at its 21 base stations, and on an average every month five to six of them remained off the road.

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