Members of the ‘108' ambulance workers' union (Tamil Nadu) submitted a memorandum to Collector U. Sagayam here on Thursday.
In their petition, a delegation of the forum listed out a number of grievances and urged the Collector to intervene and redress them. Of the 13 ambulance vans in Madurai, vital parts and gadgets such as tyres, wheelchair, siren, horn, battery, oxygen cylinder, air-conditioner unit among others required periodical maintenance in many. Despite repeated pleas to the authorities, they had not been carried out, posing severe hardship to the employees in discharging their duties.