Blinkit to charge ₹2,500 for ambulance services in non-emergency cases:Founder says fees similar to those of private ambulances

Blinkit Ambulance will charge ₹2,500 for each non-emergency case, Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal said on Thursday, 5 November 2026, highlighting a growing share of bookings for routine medical checkups rather than emergency cases. ‘Emergency transfers will be free’ Goyal clarified that emergency transfers will be free as always while non-emergency transfers will be charged ₹2,500 after the trip, broadly in line with what private ambulances charge. In the last 2 years, we have served approximately 20,000 emergency cases (about 42,000 cases in total). We haven t charged a single rupee for any of them. And we want to keep it that way. With everything free, a growing share of bookings are for routine checkups, hospital visits and hospital-to-home transfers, trips that an Uber or private transport could have handled just as easily. Every such booking keeps a fully equipped emergency ambulance with paramedics off the road when someone’s life may depend on it. -Eternal founder, Deepinder Goyal The money charged for non-emergency transfers will go to Eternal Foundation, which runs these ambulances and will help the company scale further, Goyal said.
Goyal is the Vice Chairman of Eternal, the parent firm of Zomato and Blinkit. 10-minute ambulances save lives “We hope that this charge will dramatically drop the usage of our Ambulances for non-emergency cases. 10-minute ambulances have saved and can save thousands of lives, and we need to keep them available for emergencies that need them the most,” Goyal stated in the post.