A for Ambulance - A to Z Challenge 2017

#Letter of the day - A

Thought of the day - Ambulance.

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Ambulance as far as we all know is a vehicle that takes sick people to hospital or that transfers sick people from one place to another. Not just road ambulances but now a days we see a lot of air ambulances too helping all those people who are to be transported in grave accidents especially train accidents.

But I am not planning to write a note about ambulances. But this post is about how a particular scene in a movie changed the entire perspective of not only me but of many people. The word Ambulance is always associated with emergency and whenever I see an ambulance in road all I had felt was why the driver is moving pretty slowly, why the people on the road are not giving way to the ambulance and I have even cursed people who have blocked the ambulance movement near signals. Many a times I have also stood wondering about the facilities that a Maruti Omni van can hold for a patient and his/her attender too. 

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To top it all there were shows in News Channels that have projected the road sense of people and all those victims' cries have made things even worse. I had always thought why not there be a separate lane for ambulance and other emergency vehicles. All these were about the free movement of the vehicle alone but at no other time, I or none of the others with whom I had discussed had thought about the person inside the vehicle.

The movie Pasanga - 2 made us talk about the fact that we should pray for the person inside the vehicle and prayers have always made wonders. A two seconds of silent prayer to save the person inside the vehicle have started giving me more comfort and I have stopped cursing people who have not given way for the ambulance rather prayed for the speedy recovery and yes as I said earlier, prayers do make wonders and may be its just a coincidence but I see the ambulance move fast and are not stopped by the other vehicles on the road.