Ambulances run out of fuel: patients' lives in danger

Getting fuel for ambulances, lorries transporting drugs and generators at many hospitals has now become a problem, health sources claim.

If ambulances run out of fuel, there is a risk that critically ill patients will not be able to be transported from small hospitals to hospitals with greater facilities.

There is also a risk that the generators will run out of fuel and the operating theaters and intensive care units will be paralyzed and the distribution of medicines among hospitals will be hampered due to difficulties in obtaining fuel.

Meanwhile, 15 ambulances at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle are running out of fuel and this is the situation in many hospitals island wide, according to health sources.