Blinkit will begin charging ₹2,500 after non-emergency ambulance transfers, Eternal Vice Chairman Deepinder Goyal said Nov. 5, saying the fee is intended to keep equipped vehicles and paramedics available for urgent calls.
The charge applies after each non-emergency trip, Goyal said. Emergency transfers will remain free. He described the fee as broadly in line with private ambulance rates.
Goyal said the service handled about 42,000 cases in the two years before his announcement, including about 20,000 emergencies, without charging users. He said routine checkups, hospital visits and trips home from hospitals had become a larger share of bookings, keeping crews and vehicles occupied. Such trips can leave ambulances unavailable when, as Goyal put it, “someone’s life may depend on it.”
He said proceeds would go to Eternal Foundation to help expand the service. Goyal also identified the availability of trained, empathetic paramedics as the main obstacle to scaling the operation.
Blinkit lists ambulance service in Gurugram and most parts of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. Its service page says an ambulance marked available in the app should arrive within 10 minutes, though traffic and road conditions can affect arrival times.
Goyal said Blinkit aims to bring the service to all major Indian cities within two to four years of Nov. 5.
