4 Jan 2025
The service will be available for a flat fee of ₹2,000.
Expanding their scope of quick commerce, Blinkit is set to launch ambulance services in select areas of Gurugram, India. It deployed five ambulances in the test phase on Thursday, January 2nd. Users will soon be able to book a Basic Life Support (BLS) service through the Blinkit app.
The ambulances will have a paramedic, a trained driver, and an assistant. It will not offer services for neonatal care or ventilators. It will be equipped with AEDs (Automated External Defibrillator), oxygen cylinders, suction machines, monitors, stretchers, emergency medicines, including injections.
The q-commerce startup plans to introduce the service in other major cities in India within the next two years. A few users highlighted the probable issue of users being asked to pay surge prices in times of high demand.
Till December 2023, India had 17,495 BLS and 3,441 Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances.