Workshop on National Education Policy 2020
A workshop on ‘National Education Policy 2020: The Impetus to Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ was organized by Pragati College of Education in Siliguri yesterday.
Inspired by Padmashree Karimul Haque, who is more popularly known as the ‘Bike Ambulance Dada,’ a ‘Bike ambulance service’ was inaugurated at the Siliguri Social Welfare Organisation at Hospital More in Siliguri.
Mr Haque, who inaugurated the service, said he was proud of the fact that he has been able to inspire the young generation.The new initiative has been apparently taken by a 24-year-old resident of Ghughumali, Rakesh Dutta, who on his visit to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital a few days ago, had witnessed two boys taking their father to the hospital in a rickshaw van.
“When I asked them why they did not use any other comfortable medium of transportation, they said that their father had been unwell and could not go to work for six to seven days, and that they did not have enough money to afford any other mode of transport. Then I felt that if I had a four-wheeler, I could have helped such people, following which I thought of taking up Karimul Sir’s idea and transforming a motorcycle into an ambulance. Also, for a bike, it is much easier to negotiate in the traffic congestions and make way through the narrow lanes,” Mr Dutta said.
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He, however, added that his ambulance service would be available only in the night time.
“Anybody needs any help in the night or if there is any kind of an emergency, we will be here at their service and we will do it free of cost,” he added.
He further said, “We just have one motorbike right now, which our members will be riding alternately. So, even when I am not available, the other members of our Unique Social Welfare team can be reached.”Mr Haque, meanwhile, advised them about using an “ambulance headlight, the ambulance siren,”and using other things an ambulance may require.
“We will try to do as suggested. Also, as the monsoons are here, we are planning to give the motorcycle a cover and make proper arrangements for helmets so that it will be convenient for the patients,” Mr Dutta said.
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