Referral Transport Scheme was initiated on 14^th November 2009 in the State. It is now branded as “National Ambulance Services”. All the districts of Haryana are covered under the scheme.

Total Ambulances: -408 ambulances are operational (24 ALS, 297 BLS ambulances, 62 PTA and 20 Kilkari/Back to home, 5 Neonatal ambulances) which are managed by Decentralized Control Rooms operational in districts.

Services provided: - “24 X 7” Free transportation services are provided within the district to any patient in emergency, pregnant women, victims of road side accident, post natal cases, in case of emergency till 6 weeks after delivery, sick infants, & children under 5 years of age and freedom fighters. The objective of Referral Transport Scheme is to provide pre-hospitalization care and transport to the patients in emergency, and to increase institutional delivery by transporting pregnant women to health facilities and to tertiary care health facilities and back-home services within the districts.

Stationing of ambulances: 

• Four ambulances stationed at Civil Hospital, 
• One ambulance is stationed at Sub Divisional Hospital/Community Health Center 
• One ambulance for every two Primary Health Center. 
• All ambulances except Kilkari ambulance are operational “24X7”

Charges for transportation to Private health facility:

• For BLS ambulance @ Rs. 7 per K.M 
• For ALS ambulances/ Neonate Care Ambulances@ Rs. 15 per K.M.

Salient Features

• Decentralized control room operational 24x7 in each district Hospital having toll free no. 108. 

• Two lines of toll free no 108 are operational in each control room of the districts to provide easy access to ambulance services.
• Ambulances are fitted with GPS system. 
• The Mobile Closed User Group (CUG) Sims has been provided on each ambulance of Referral Transport Scheme in the State to provide easy communication from ambulance and control room and with outreach workers like ASHAs and ANMs.
• The refueling of ambulances is done through petro cards in collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
• The average response time in reaching the patient is 15 minutes and for dropping the patient at nearest health facility is 35 minutes as per the online data of patient transported.
• Online Referral Transport Application is available on National Health Mission Haryana Web Portal. The details of all the patients transported are captured in this application.

Performance Indicators:- 

Year wise Purchase of Ambulances-

The physical achievements are as follows:

Training

• 175 EMTs trained at GVK- EMRI Hyderabad in 
  1. Basic Life Support (BLS),
  2. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) ,
  3. International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) 
  4. Advances Life Support Obstetrics (ALSO).
• 550 EMTs trained in
  1. Emergency and Trauma Life Care’
  2. Basic Life Support (BLS) , 
  3. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS),
  4. International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) 
  5. Advances Life Support Obstetrics (ALSO)