The stark wealth gap has led to densely populated residential areas, not to mention India's numerous remote mountainous regions where narrow, winding country roads often prevent four-wheeled ambulances from reaching their destinations.
The small, agile three-wheeled ambulance takes on the first stage of emergency care.
Trained paramedics arrive at the scene, first assess the injured person's condition. If the injuries are minor, they can be treated with the medical tools carried in the vehicle. In critical situations, the superior power of the three-wheeled vehicle is used to quickly transfer the injured person to a four-wheeled ambulance or a nearby hospital.
The types of emergency calls for three-wheeled ambulances vary by region. In over 1,000 emergency calls near cities, nearly half of the patients were transferred to four-wheeled ambulances.