Gone are those days now, as the caretaker government provides a cure for the DMCH's chronic problem. Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday approved four ambulances for the country's biggest public hospital.

According to an official, the 1700-bed DMCH has got no ambulance service to bring emergency patients from different areas for saving their life.

It has been learnt that there was no provision of including ambulance in the requirement list of the hospital. Although health ministry allotted four ambulances earlier, the hospital authorities could not operate those for lack of guidelines for operational cost and maintenance of ambulance.

According to Health Ministry sources, initiatives had been taken to provide ambulance to the hospital since 1982, but the efforts "went on in vain" for the legal sophistries.

The matter came to the chief adviser's notice and he took a quick action to heal the ills caused by legal complications as well as a mechanistic view of the law.