'Ambulance in 10 mins': Blinkit’s new offering

Bengaluru: In a first of its kind, quick commerce delivery app Blinkit launched the service of ‘ambulance in 10 minutes’, the company’s chief executive officer Albinder Dhindsa announced in a post on social media platform X. The pilot project was kickstarted from Gurugram on Thursday, with five ambulances. 

The Zomato-owned company stated that the ambulances will have a paramedic, an assistant and a trained driver for service. It will also be equipped with  essential life-saving equipment, including oxygen cylinders, AED (automated external defibrillator), stretcher, monitor, suction machine, and essential emergency medicines and injections.

The rapid delivery service company plans to offer this service at an affordable cost for customers and invest in ‘solving this critical problem for the long term’. With a gradual scale up of the service, it aims to expand to all major cities over the next two years.

Prominent startup founders and sectoral experts appreciated the initiative, particularly pointing out the need of ambulance services over grocery items. “If a city is properly divided with the presence of an ambulance within 1 or 2-km radius, 10 mins is quite the possibility,” said Dr Sudhakar Varanasi, a healthcare advisor.