The Uttarakhand government in state assembly claimed that all pending payments to the GVK- EMRI which used to operate the fleet of 108 ambulance service in the state have been cleared. Incidentally, the state government has handed over the operation of the 108 ambulance service to a new company, Community Action through Motivation Programme (CAMP) from April 28 this year. In response to a question of Salt MLA, Surendra Singh Jeena who sought to know about the status of the emergency ambulance service in the state, the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat who also holds Health portfolio said in an unanswered question that the a total of 139 ambulances and one boat ambulance are currently in service in the ambulance service. A total of 695 employees are currently deployed in the ambulance service.

Rawat in his response said that earlier the union government used to provide 20 percent of budget for the ambulance service but from the year 2019-20 the union government would provide 90 percent of the budget. It is pertinent to mention here that the former employees of the ambulance service who lost their jobs after operation of the service changed hands are on a path of agitation. These employees are also claiming that their pending salaries are yet to be paid. Rawat in his statement said that GVK- EMRI has been ordered to clear the pending salaries to its former employees. 

In response to a question of Dhanaulti MLA, Pritam Singh Panwar, the CM Rawat said that state has adequate stocks of medicines of swine flu and these tablets are available free of cost in the government hospitals. He also told the member that the issue of granting license for E -pharmacy is under consideration at the level of Chief Controller of Medicine (Government of India). Rawat accepted that branded and generic medicines would be available at cheap rates to the patients under  E- Pharmacy project but added that the any progress on the issue would be made only after the clearance given to it by the government of India.