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Issue No: 302, September 2014

The Auroville Ambulance: Service in Action

Two years ago, the Auroville Ambulance was purchased with funds from the cyclone relief fund. Today, the ambulance steadily continues to serve the community. Having attended to 98 patients in this time, the ambulance, on average, transports someone to hospital once every six days. The majority of these people are Aurovilians, with only 20 out of 98 non-Aurovilians. While the male to female ratio is roughly even, 62 out of the 98 people were above 60 years old. The ambulance service is more complex than one might think. It involves a dispatcher available 24 hours a day, who receives emergency phone calls and notes down critical information about the patient. The dispatcher then determines whether the ambulance is necessary. If so, she calls both the on-call doctor and the ambulance driver, both of whom then make their way to the scene. On average, the Auroville ambulance arrives on the scene within 30 minutes of the initial call, compared to outside ambulances that can tak...
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Issue No. 302, September 2014

  • Mini test ponds for the Matrimandir Lake
  • The Pool in the Garden of Consciousness
  • Education is the main way to change society
  • Is there a future for some of Auroville’s beach communities?
  • Facing out, facing in: Auroville’s Visitors’ Center
  • The Auroville Ambulance: Service in Action
  • The challenges of filming Auroville
  • Pushing the boundaries of theatre
  • In Brief
  • Letter: Visits of Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers
  • What is happening at Bharat Nivas?
  • R Kannan (Passing)

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