INDIA TODAY REALITY CHECKIn Uttar Pradesh last week, a father was seen running to a hospital in Kanpur, carrying his son. It's light and siren had also been pulled out from the van's roof, India Today observed. Impoverished patients had no options but to hire expensive private ambulances, India Today observed. But they hardly had any primary healthcare equipment on board let alone emergency apparatus, India Today noticed. Several paramedics India Today spoke with admitted their ambulances had inadequate first-aid and oxygen supplies.

Source: India Today September 05, 2016 15:44 UTC