In a gesture of goodwill and neighborhood, Indian officials transferred 88 ambulances to the counterparts in Sri Lanka in 2016.
Now, ten years later, this gift has proven to be corded by life for 1.5 million Sri Lankais who made urgent care and received urgent care in the back of these ambulances and those added to the fleet in the following years.
At the time, Prime Minister Narendra amended the ambulances and Sri Lanka was able to launch the country’s first national emergency service – equivalent to our 911 or 999 from Great Britain.
“Today, the size of the fleet ambulances has increased to 322. It is used to provide free emergency transport services to the whole day and night campaign”, Nalinda Jayatissa Sri-Lankais Nalinda Jayatissa Tell to Modi in a communication last Saturday.
Jayatissa said national statistics report that 2.44 million people had received care in these ambulances for cardiac arrest, stroke and road accidents. 65% of them were in “Golden Time” where medical care in a few minutes can differentiate between life and death immediately.
“It is nearly 1.5 million lives saved so far because of your generosity, and continues to save lives in Sri Lanka,” said Jayatissa.
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Sri Lanka ranks well above the other Southern Asian countries of the human development index with an index score of 0.750, and out of 142 countries questioned by the World Economic Forum, Sri Lanka carried out a third in terms of health industry. It was in 2011, before the arrival of ambulance donations.
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More modern estimates maintain Sri Lanka in advance on other South Asian economies for the development of the health industry, and the island has eradicated several infectious diseases before the established targets. Its life expectancy of 75.5 years at birth is 10% higher than the world average, and the country is classified number 5 on the global donation index which classifies charitable behavior and gestures among the population.
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