Mumbai: Versova man donates ambulance to hospital

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A resident of Versova on Tuesday donated an air-conditioned ambulance to Chembur's Inlaks General Hospital in memory of his mother. The ambulance donation comes at a time when the city and the state is battling the global pandemic and facing huge demand for ambulances.

According to a report in Times of India, in 2006, Versova resident Sumeet Dhawan's mother Namita Dhawan died due to a massive heart attack after the family could not find an ambulance to take her to a hospital.

Recalling the incident, Dhawan says, "My parents were going for evening walk when my mother suffered a massive heart attack. We desperately tried to contact an ambulance service but by the time an ambulance came and we took her to a hospital it was too late. The doctor said she could have survived had we brought her a little earlier. That incident kept haunting me."

Eight years after his mother's demise, Dhawan started Namita Dhawan Charitable Trust and started helping poor students to pay their school and college fees. Following this, Dhawan decided to donate an ambulance to a hospital and started looking for manufacturers for the same. He donated an ambulance on the special occasion of Gudi Padwa after a company delivered it in less than four days.

Lauding Dhawan and the trust for the gesture, Vishamber Khatri, president, Inlaks General Hospital, said, "The donation of the ambulance will help poor and needy patients. We urge more such charitable trusts and donors to come forward and donate medical equipment and kits so that we could serve the people better in the challenging time of COVID-19 pandemic which has hit the world very badly."