Health and Family Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday instructed his department officials to cancel existing tenders and call for fresh ones for running ‘108’ ambulances and also work towards improving the condition of State-run dialysis centres across Karnataka.
The 108 Arogya Kavacha service, run by the State government on a public-private partnership model (PPP) model with GVK-EMRI, was launched in 2008.
After reviewing programmes and schemes of the department, Mr. Rao told reporters that the current state of the dialysis centres was not up to the mark, and the cost of each dialysis procedure was also high.
