Blinkit Ambulance to charge Rs 2,500 for non-emergency trips

Blinkit Ambulance will charge Rs 2,500 for non-emergency transfers from Thursday, 5 November, while emergency trips remain free. Deepinder Goyal, vice chairman of parent company Eternal, announced the change on X. He said Blinkit Ambulance has served about 42,000 cases in the last two years, of which roughly 20,000 were emergencies. None were charged, but a growing share of bookings were for routine checkups and hospital-to-home transfers that an Uber or private transport could have handled.

Goyal said each non-emergency booking keeps a fully equipped ambulance with paramedics away from life-threatening emergencies. The fee is broadly in line with private ambulance charges and goes to the Eternal Foundation, which runs the service and will use it for expansion. He said the biggest bottleneck is finding trained paramedics, and that Eternal CEO Albinder Dhindsa is committed to bringing the service to all major Indian cities in two to four years.

Update, 5 November 2026: The fee of Rs 2,500 for non-emergency transfers and the free emergency policy remain unchanged. Goyal used a user’s post thanking Blinkit for saving a grandmother’s life to illustrate why the change was needed. The expansion timeline of two to four years to all major cities, and the trained-paramedic bottleneck, are repeated across new reports.