nashik the city police have granted permission to over 1200 people who were in need of medical emergency to travel within the city for health purposes in the past two days in the past two days police received 5000 requests through the helpline numbers on wednesday night the police released the helpline numbers on which people could request for travel permission within the city the senior police officials said that they were getting lot of calls from people all across the state as the number that was published went viralunder this system the concerned citizens have to give their name address vehicle numbers photo the reason for the need to travel the police on verifying the details of the applicants and the documents sent on the numbers through whatsapp grants permission or rejects the request the police said that the permissions were granted only for medical emergencies the city with a population of approximately 18 lakh has a large number of people suffering from some ailment there are also incidents of someone suffering from cardiac arrest some kind of injury or in need of dialysis chemotherapy and other such medical necessitiessince the police have barred the use of vehicles in the city it has become a major problem for citizens to go to hospitals the helpline thus proved handy for citizensa senior police officer of the rank of acp on the condition of anonymity said there were also some instances in which the callers did not have any means of transportation to take their patient to a hospital in five cases we arranged ambulances and send them to the callers address the officer said that the police would not reject anyones request if it is a medical emergency and would ensure that the patient is rushed to the hospital at the earliest however people think that they could also get permission for going to a grocery store medical store vegetable market and others they are available in every lane and bylane of the city and people can easily walk to such places by taking proper precautionsthe officer added that more than 3000 requests were rejected the police also take note of the vehicle number photo ids of the caller so that the police permission cannot be misused