MOTORCYCLE

AMBULANCE
submitted by :
Ashtami ps 12202223
According to government figures, up to
130 mothers die per every thousand births
in India. Many of these women can’t get to
hospital in time. In remote tribal areas of
the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh,
where development is still slow, women
suffer greatly due to lack of infrastructure
and healthcare facilities, especially
during pregnancy. However, the situation
is slowly changing.
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CHALLENGES Lack of better transportation
Many indigenous communities
don’t have access to healthcare
Women die when giving birth at
home.

03 04 05
It is not about lack of health
Raising maternal mortality rate The risk of postpartum,
facilities; it is about lack
and infant mortality rate. hemorrhage.
accessibility.
case 1:

Narayanpur is a district in
Chhattisgarh, India.

Overview
• The geographic topography of Narayanpur
district is very problematic.
• There are mountains, forest, river and drains.
There is no connectivity
• The terrain is very difficult, so the normal
government services are not reachable to most
of the population that resides in the internal area.
 IDEATION
These motorcycle ambulances can reach inaccessible areas.
Modify the four-stroke motorcycles.
A side carriage carries patients.
Inspired by the bike used in the film

SELCYCROTOM SVT CC 521

‘sholay’ and thought if something like
that could be used in this area

PROTOTYPING
COLLABORATING -Mechanical engineer from Visakhapatnam for
building the first prototype

Prototype needs to be simple.

Needs to be inbuild locally.
Maintain locally .
Driver which will drives this motorcycle needs to be a local
(who knows these roads, people around them)
People oriented intervention
FEEDBACK
Feedback from drivers and people using it.
Lack of power.
Tends to turn left which was disturbing the
stability of it.
(the center of gravity of motor cycle is
between the two wheels of it and when
you add the third wheel , the center of
gravity moves out of it)
PROTOTYPE 2:

Work with
mechanical
engineers in nit
Raipur to
improve the
design.
 PULSAR 220
MOTOR
CYCLE

It goes to difficult
terrains where no
AMBULANCE
other vehicles go.
Motorcycle ambulance- project by local NGO
,

Saathi and the UNICEF in 2014 and later adopted by the district
administration.

The motorcycle ambulance is helping us

improving Maternal mortality rate and
infant mortality rate.
It helps pregnant women with their
delivery over health center. For the next
3 days, the women are kept here and
given fruits and nutritious food items.
This way, the risk of postpartum,
hemorrhage is lowered.
A simple innovation converting a
Motorcycle into an Ambulance
which has helped save more than
thousands of pregnant women in
the tribal district in India.