Blaring sirens

By Humayun Hyder Zigatola, Dhaka
27 December 2004, 18:00 PM
It has been observed with utter annoyance that ambulances plying the city roads unnecessarily use their monotonous sirens whether it is necessary or not to scare away the motorised and the non motorised vehicles. Ambulances are definitely supposed to blow their sirens in order to reach their destinations considering the severity of the condition of the patients. But the other day I observed with awe and surprise that an ambulance of a private clinic unnecessarily kept on blowing the siren when there was no patient in it.