Kerala’s Panchayat member turns ambulance driver to help women patients

The ambulance she drives was donated to the Indian Union Muslim League local committee for COVID related requirements, by Bafaqui Thangal Charitable Trust

The first time she sat on the driving seat of an ambulance, Fathima Jaslin was too excited. “The siren and the power of the ambulance was too overwhelming. It took me some time to get over that excitement”, she said. This member of Kunnamangalam Grama Panchayat became an ambulance driver by accident. But then she discovered her advantage and has been on call for needy women for a few weeks now. A newly elected ward member, Ms. Jaslin has been active in the COVID management activities in her ward including food distribution, fogging and distributing pulse oximeters to the patients ever since the second wave started. As a former Kudumbasree ADS Chairperson, she is quite familiar with most families in the ward and hence her victory in the last local body polls.