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Study of Emergency Response Service (EMRI Scheme)explained in the earlier section. With a few follow up studies one should be ableto model the costs of increased demand and increased utilization that could beexpected realistically.The capital replacement cost, which is expected to arise every four years foreach of the ambulances, will also add to the cost of ambulance per year. Thus ifthe operational cost is Rs 12 lakhs per ambulance per year and the capital costsper ambulance was about Rs 12 lakhs, then the annualised total costs would beabout Rs 15 lakhs per ambulance – which would be a reasonable estimate forthe costs of this service at current levels of utilization. But the likelihood ofutilisation to go up much further or plateau at this level can be commented upononly after the second phase of this study.3. The Financing of EMRI:a. Currently 100% of the capital costs in all states except in Andhra Pradesh are beingprovided by the government. In Andhra Pradesh alone the capital costs, excluding thecosts of the ambulances, are to be provided by EMRI. For ambulances, the cost of thefirst 70 ambulances was contributed by Shri.R. Raju, the then CEO of Satyam and thiswas in 2005 -07. When it was expanded with 400 ambulances from the government thecosts of these ambulances, but no other capital costs were borne by the government.b. The costs of the call centre in EMRI’s Andhra headquarters and the expansions made init, the cost of the training institution and the training programmes developed and thetechnology development are all EMRIs contribution. The 40 crores taken as loan andoverdraft in 2006-07 went towards this expenditure. There is the burden of a hugeinterest payment on this count. In the last board meeting held under Shri Raju’schairpersonship in October 2008 28 , a fund of Rs 36 crores was promised to meet thecapital expenditure and the leadership costs of the national headquarters and Andhraoperation. This did not come through and this is the main source of the current crisis.Funds were drawn from the state grants towards meeting these commitments, but facingobjections from the state, this was stopped. The national headquarters could not payback these borrowing, leaving therefore a liquidity crisis in the states. Also it could notpay back to its creditors here or have advances for continuing its national headquartersfunctions.c. Of the operating costs, 95% were to be borne by the government and the remaining 5%of operational costs were to be borne by EMRI. It has been clarified that such acontribution has not been made in any of the states. Further that it would no longer bepossible to make this contribution- even in a best case scenario. The audited statementsof expenditure and income statements of Gujarat showed 5% as being borne by EMRI,28 See Annex A-23: Minutes of Governing Board meeting of EMRI – 20 th October 2008.National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC)28