Ambulance owners announce indefinite strike from Wednesday

The group of private ambulance owners has announced an indefinite boycott from Wednesday dawn to press home five demands including toll exemption in line with judicial orders and implementation of the commercial regulations.

The “Bangladesh Ambulance Owners’ Welfare Association” announced the halt in services in a press statement sent to the media on Tuesday.

The group’s President Omar Faruk and General Secretary Badol Madbar signed the statement.

Badol Madbar said the ambulance owners have been pressing for realising their demands for a long time, but found no resolution. Their service boycott will indefinitely until the five demands are met, he said.

The demands are:

1)      Swift implementation of the commercial regulations regarding ambulance operations

2)      Reservation of fixed parking slots at government hospitals

3)      Halt in toll collection in line with the High Court’s directive

4)      Complete exemption of all kinds of tolls on freezing vans and ambulances for the dead

5)      Uninterrupted fuel supply for patient-carrying ambulances