KTR flags off more ambulances under ‘Gift a smile’ initiative

Hyderabad, Oct 3 : Telangana’s Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, K.T. Rama Rao flagged three more COVID response ambulances on Saturday.
These vehicles have been donated by three legislators of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) from combined Warangal district under ‘Gift a smile’ programme launched on the Minister’s birthday.
On his birthday on July 24, the Minister had called up on his ministerial colleagues, MPs, MLAs and party leaders to donate ambulances and named the initiative ‘Gift a smile’.
Rama Rao, who is also the working president of TRS, had appealed to them to donate at least 100 ambulances and support the government hospitals across the state amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since then about 30 ambulances have been flagged off. Last week, six ambulances were flagged. Three of them were donated by endowments Minister Indrakaran Reddy.
MLAs Balka Suman and Diwakar Rao gifted two and one ambulances respectively.