Muzamil Shah
Srinagar: Very Important Persons, escort persons and other protected persons should provide way to ambulances, it is the matter of life, Minister of Roads and Buildings, Naeem Akher said Wednesday.
Akhter was speaking while flagging off Ambulance is priority campaign organised by Trumboo Cement Industries in coordination with Jammu and Kashmir Traffic Police Department, Government Medical College Srinagar, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) and Government Polytechnic College Gogji Bagh.
Akher while flagging the campaign: “This campaign is for everyone, be it VIPs, Escort persons and other protected persons that they should provide way to ambulances because it is the matter of life,” he said. “We should learn lesson from this campaign that ambulances should be given priority.”
SSP Traffic Sargan Shukla on the occasion appealed people not to stop their vehicles in front of the ambulances. “We have provided hot line numbers for the violation. If anyone of you (people) find some vehicle blocking the way of an ambulance click a picture and send it to us, we will take a strict action against the person.”
Akher, flagged off the mock drill from the office of the Senior Superintendent of Traffic Police in Polo-View. Various ambulances took different routes of the Srinagar city in a form of caravan. Dozens of students and traffic policemen drove side by side with the ambulances on motorbikes and made several rounds in the city. Students and traffic officials carried placards in their hands some of which read: “Save human life, Give way to ambulances.’
Spokesperson TCI said: “Many patients die because they do not reach hospital on time. The purpose of the event is to aware people that human lives should be given priority by allowing ambulances smooth passage.”
