Move Over Zomato’s 10-Min Delivery, Hyderabad Platform Aims To Provide Ambulance In 8 Mins

Normally, people in India do not seek professional assistance; instead, they contact a well-known hospital, which may be 25 minutes away. But that might be set to change as now dethroning Zomato’s 10-min delivery, Hyderabad platform is aiming to provide ambulance in 8 mins.

The announcement last week by restaurant conglomerate Zomato of a 10-minute food delivery service garnered a lot of criticism, with some claiming that what India truly required was a 10-minute ambulance service. A Hyderabad-based medical emergency response platform now aims to achieve this in only eight minutes.

StanPlus currently offers to respond to emergency calls in under six seconds and supply ambulances to patients within 15 minutes, thanks to its network of over 3,000 ambulances. Prabhdeep Singh, the firm's founder and CEO, is now attempting to lower the ambulance estimated time of arrival to eight minutes after securing a new round of $20 million investment in January.

Singh told TheP...

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