Assam health secretary and commissioner Prateek Hajela flags off the boat ambulance service on Friday.
The boat ambulance has made its debut in the city’s healthcare sector.
The National Rural Health Mission today introduced a boat ambulance between Guwahati and North Guwahati to ferry patients during an emergency.
The ambulance will reach the southern bank of Brahmaputra (Guwahati) in 10 to 15 minutes from the north. It will carry patients with a maximum of two attendants, and then 108 Mritunjoy ambulance would take them to the nearest hospital.
