News: Gurugram Aims for Public Ambulances in 75% of Cases-20-02-2026
Gurugram’s health department wants public ambulances to carry 75% of hospitalisations this year, up from just 9.8% of crash and trauma emergencies now, according to a district plan drawn up in January and accessed by HT.
The plan says 41.7% of accident victims reach hospital in private vehicles and 36.4% in private ambulances. Police vehicles handle about 2.3%, another 1.5% are non-hospitalisations, and data for the remaining 7.6% was unavailable.
January 2026 figures show 28 ambulances for a population above 2,500,000: seven basic life support, eight advanced life support, 10 patient transport vehicles and three non-emergency carriers. In October 2025, HT reported a pregnant woman was allegedly denied an ambulance at Sohna sub-division hospital owing to a shortage.
A senior official said the findings went before experts at January’s road safety meeting. A 2025 geospatial study measured ambulance travel times on key stretches, and the plan focuses on network efficiency and shorter hospital handover delays.
A trauma care team will assess the need for more ambulances or trauma centres within 15 minutes’ drive. An audit of the 108 fleet and paramedic training under the National Ambulance Code and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) framework are planned later this year. Only ATLS-certified paramedics will be recruited for BLS and ALS ambulances.
Haryana expects 129 more ambulances by June, about 10 of them for remote parts of Gurugram. The tender was floated in January.
