108 UP

The Government of Uttar Pradesh initiated to implement comprehensive emergency medical services in the state by introducing a fleet of ambulances to cater to entire state in a phased manner and provide emergency ambulance services free of cost to the people of Uttar Pradesh. This will not only facilitate the integrated emergency health care management but also help in adopting comprehensive emergency management protocols by providing appropriate Pre-hospital care in the ambulances and admitting the patients/ victims to the nearest government facility within shortest possible time while adhering to 'The Golden Hour' and the 'Platinum Ten Minutes'.

Emergency Medical Services were started in UP under the name "108 Samajwadi Swasthya Sewa" with 135 ambulances on 14th September 2012, and with a full fleet of 988 Ambulances by the end of February 2013 by providing one ambulance per block, two ambulances for every district head quarter and additional two ambulances for bigger cities.

In order to maximize the benefit in accordance with the Emergency mandate, Government of Uttar Pradesh has decided to partner with an external agency (service provider) selected through a competitive bidding process for the management of emergency medical services, so as to ensure the provision of a round the clock free service. Accordingly, the agency namely GVK EMRI was assigned the process/ task to manage the 108 Ambulance Services.

Considering the great success of the program, the Government of UP, added a fleet of 500 more ambulances making it into 1488 ambulances plying across the entire state for public benefit.

The service is operational available 24 X 7 free of cost