they are parked away from these spots the personnel can always drive up to the nearest comfort station said b prabhu das head of marketing and hospital relationship gvk emri 108 ambulance services one of the women 108 emergency network employees narrated how stressful it was to balance her professional and personal life hailing from salem she resides in a rented accommodation in coimbatore and gets to visit her family and two children once a week the management representatives had resorted to a recruitment drive ahead of the strike however the move was seen to be in extreme bad taste and ill timed as they went ahead with it when the existing workers had already announced a strike in the coming days there are 632 ambulances operating across the state with more than 2500 employees on its pay rolls the unresolved issues are expected to be discussed in the next round of talks slated for february 10 in chennai