Ambulance man of india

The Padmashree awardee, with whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi had clicked a selfie and on whose life a Bollywood flick is being planned, told PTI on Monday that each monthly injection that he needs to cure his ailment costs him around Rs 12,000, and he is unable to bear the expenses. India’s Karimul Haque, also known as "Though I am building a hospital in my village with the help of the locals, I have not yet received any help from the state or central government apart from Rs 3.27 lakh donated by former Jalpaiguri MP Bijoy Chandra Burman," he said. Haque, known as "Ambulance Man", said he is building the hospital on 0.88 acre of his land in his village. According to the Jalpaiguri district administration, at least 3,500 to 4,000 patients in over 20 villages have benefitted from his 24-hour free "motorbike ambulance" service. Haque had taken to the charity 15 years ago after losing his mother due to lack of ambulance services in his village. JALPAIGURI: Karimul Haque, who won the Padmashree award in 2017 for extending "bike ambulance" services to residents of West Bengal's Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts, is suffering from an eye ailment. According to a private eye institute in Jalpaiguri's Malbazar, Haque, who is in his mid-fifties, is having difficulty in binocular vision. Binocular vision enables a two-eyed animal to perceive a three-dimensional image.googletag.cmd.push(function() ); The Padmashree awardee, with whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi had clicked a selfi...

In March 2015, Twinkle Kalia, a Delhi-based ambulance driver, was heading from Inderlok to Shastri Nagar, carrying her six-month-old daughter along. While she was waiting at a traffic signal, she noticed a group of people rushing towards her, carrying an unconscious boy who had lost a leg and was bleeding heavily. The group requested that she take the boy to the hospital. And so she did, within a matter of four minutes. “The boy lost his leg, but the doctor who treated him said that any further delay would have eliminated the chances of saving him altogether,” Twinkle tells The Better India. Like this, there are several instances that Twinkle, along with her husband Himanshu, have to share about saving lives through their free ambulance services. Both work as insurance agents, and since 2002, have helped thousands across Delhi who are in distress and need of urgent medical help. For those in need Twinkle lifting needy patient in Delhi. The inspiration to work for this cause came from a personal incident that Himanshu faced when he was 14 years old. “One evening in 1992, my father met with an accident and had to be rushed to the hospital. We did not have the money to call for an ambulance or an auto-rickshaw. The people in the neighbourhood also refused to help. We eventually managed to collect some money and booked an auto-rickshaw,” Himanshu, now 42, recalls. He says that while the accident took place at 7 pm, his father was only able to be admitted to AIIMS at 2 am. He l...

JALPAIGURU: A production house from Vinay Mudgil, who was assistant director in Sooraj Barjat-ya’s Rajshree Productions film ‘Hum Saath-Saath Hain’, is the writer-director of ‘ Though the cast is yet to be finalised, the director has Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajkumar Rao and The team that is now penning the script will also show the draft to Aamir Khan who was meant to esaay the role of astronaut Rakesh Sharma, but opted out. “We had gone to meet Karimul Haque in his village on December 29 and signed the agreement. A team will return to the village in a month and stay for a few days with Haque to observe his daily routine. The details will come in handy while finalizing the sript. We have some actors in mind but will approach them once the script is ready,” Mudgil’s assistant Aloke Singh told TOI from Mumbai. Haque is still a bit stunned at the development and finds it hard to believe that someone from Bollywood is interested in making a film on his “unremarkable” life. “I do what I do from the belief that everyone in need of a doctor should get to the hospital. The film-makers have told me they will come to visit me again to take notes on what I do everyday and how I lead my life. They will then take me to Mumbai to interact with the actor who is selected to play my character,” he said. Two incidents that stand out in Haque's life will play a prominent part in the film. The first was in 1995 when Haque had gone door to door seeking help for his ailing mother who needed urgent...

TNN / May 15, 2023, 08:55 (IST) A daily wage labourer, who had exhausted all his money to treat his twin children, had to suffer through the death of one of his kids. To add to his pain, he had to put the child’s lifeless body in a bag & board a bus to cover almost 200kms from Siliguri to his home in Bengal. PTI / May 14, 2023, 22:00 (IST) A man on Sunday claimed that he travelled in a public bus with the body of his five-month-old child in a bag for 200 kilometres in the northern part of West Bengal, as he did not have Rs 8,000 as demanded by an ambulance driver for taking him home in Kaliaganj from Siliguri. TNN / Mar 01, 2023, 04:21 (IST) As if the double blow of having to lose one's wife and a daughter in a horrific road accident was not enough, conservationist Sunil Kumar also had to deal with an ambulance driver and morgue workers who tried to fleece him of Rs 80,000 in the aftermath of the tragedy. TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 07, 2023, 17:53 (IST) In a tragic incident in Manipur's West Imphal district, an eight-year-old boy, who had sustained a bullet injury to his head during a shoot-out, lost his life along with his mother and another relative. The three were traveling in an ambulance when they were intercepted by a mob and the vehicle was subsequently set on fire, according to officials. TNN / Jun 14, 2023, 06:53 (IST) An unidentified man threw himself under the wheels of a moving bus a few minutes after he was thrown out of the office of BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan in...

Pujari has ferried over 500 patients, including 185 COVID-positive patients, in his auto ambulance. He has also been distributing grocery kits to the needy and providing home delivery for those under home quarantine. His services have earned him an entry into India Book of Records, Asia Book of Records, and Royal Success International Book of Records. Life has a strange way of working out and that has been the case with Manjunatha Nigappa Pujari of Karnataka's Belgaum. He has been saving lives in Belgaum by ferrying patients to hospitals in his auto at night. However, this is not how Pujari had envisioned his life to be. Growing up in a military family, it was natural for him to want to join the Army. But life had different plans for him. In 2003, he met with an accident that fractured the femur on his right leg into three pieces. He also sustained some injures to his right arm. It upended his dreams of joining the forces to serve the nation but did not dent his spirits. Till date, Pujari is unable to lift heavy objects. 'The Stigmatisation Of COVID Patients Initially Was Appaling' He has ferried over 500 people in his auto. During the coronavirus pandemic alone, he ferried over 185 COVID-positive patients to the hospital. Having lost his father to the deadly virus, he decided to help other COVID patients. He recalled seeing first-hand, the stigmatisation that these patients faced, initially. "Our whole family got the virus and no one was willing to even come near us," Puj...

IMAGE: Ambulance Man Himanshu Kalia and his wife Twinkle help Sandeep Mitra to take his wife Madhura's body for cremation, in New Delhi. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo Profiles of humaneness in the time of Covid, Himanshu and Twinkle Kalia spend their days between helping the ill get a fighting chance at life and ensuring dignity in death for those who don't make it. As the second COVID-19 wave ravages large parts of India -- including the national capital that has seen thousands scramble for oxygen, hospital beds and crematorium spots -- the Kalias, Delhi's ‘ambulance couple', ferry the ill to hospital, fetch medicines, arrange funerals and sometimes step in to perform last rites too. "We don't put it in records but in the second wave of coronavirus we have been helping almost 20-25 patients daily reach hospitals. We have performed cremations of 80 people who have died of COVID-19 and helped over 1,000 people in arranging for cremations," Himanshu said. It's all free of course, the 42-year-old hastened to add. IMAGE: Ambulance Man Himanshu Kalia and his wife Twinkle at their residence at Partap Nagar, in New Delhi. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo A few days ago, they got a call from Mayur Vihar in east Delhi about a patient who had died in an autorickshaw on the way to hospital, said Twinkle. The Kalias, who live in Pratap Nagar in north Delhi, reached there quickly, got the body verified by a doctor and helped in the last rites. "We got a call from Sande...

Started by the Emergency Management & Research Institute (EMRI), a non-profit currently under the aegis of Indian conglomerate GVK, the 108 service attends to “80,000 calls daily and touches a population of 800 million,” according to K Krishnam Raju, Director, GVK-EMRI. Besides, it has also instituted a much-needed structural change in how emergency medical care is delivered to India’s poorest patients in urban and rural areas before they are taken to a hospital. EMRI was first an initiative undertaken by Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam Computer Services. First conceptualised in (united) Andhra Pradesh by the late Dr AP Ranga Rao, a man of remarkable intellect and passion who possessed a burning desire to do something for the people, a robust medical emergency system was Rao’s primary focus. Spending close to a decade working with the British National Health Service (NHS) learning about emergency systems, his vision was to introduce the same for India’s public health system. Nonetheless, it was Venkat Changavalli, the first CEO of the Hyderabad-based Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), who was the real architect behind 108. And, for the matter, if it weren’t for his father, Venkat would have never even taken up the job. “I was the CEO of a German multinational based out of Chennai, when I chaired a conference titled ‘Beyond Creating Value’ in January 2005. The chief guest at the time was Satyam Computer Services chairman Ramalinga Raju. Following the con...

AHMEDABAD: Himanshu Kalia, called the ‘ “I was 14 years old when I lost my father due to lack of such ambulance services. A decade later, when I was getting married, I asked for an ambulance in dowry instead of a car and started my free service. My dream is to operate 1,500 ambulances across the country,” said Kalia. He said that Gujarat has a good ambulance services in place but more ambulances might reduce the response time. “My family and I are encouraging people of Ahmedabad to enrol in our mission as blood donors. One might be aware of the recent news where a three-year-old girl in Delhi died due to lack of blood. The directory of 15 lakh donors across the country is my attempt to create a situation where families in crisis will not have to run from pillar to post to identify the suitable donors,” Kalia said., adding that they are getting good response from the city.