Mumbai, June 22: Mumbai Resident Yogesh Shinde, a 25-year-old young boy has become a life-saving samaritan for animals who usually get injured when knocked down by moving vehicles, especially often during monsoons. To provide quick assistance he started his ambulance service, to take injured animals to the hospital. In case if he is busy somewhere, he inform other ambulance service agencies to attend the injured animal.

According to a news report in the Indian Express, Shinde was quoted as saying, "During monsoon, the visibility is much lower than usual at nights. Drivers often run over these stray animals and escape. It is always the bystander who calls us. I try to visit every call in the night, but in case if I am busy, I inform other ambulance service drivers and ask them to attend to the injured animal."

Shinde from childhood developed love for animals. His father a driver in Parel's veterinary hospital from last 40 years is taking injured animals to the hospital. As Shinde spent his childhood more in the veterinary hospital premises, it made him come up with the idea of ambulance service of his own. He was quoted further as saying, "I have spent my childhood on the hospital premises and have been friendly with animals ever since. So I thought of doing something for them and started the ambulance service."

Besides, during monsoons, veterinary hospital records a sharp rise of 30-45 percent in cases of animals getting injured. Lt Colonel J C Khanna, superintendent at the Parel’s veterinary hospital says, "We get about 23-25 such cases in a night during monsoons as compared to 7-8 cases which we receive every night the rest of the year."

Apart from road accidents, animals suffering from diarrhoea due to unclean drinking water also record a spike during the rainy season. The hospital staff added the maximum cases during the rainy season are of stray animals infested with maggots.

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