Story highlights Government moving forward with five year plan for one unifying national emergency line

Currently Indian states have up to 10 different emergency lines

(CNN) Last week, actress and member of India's parliament, Hema Malini, was involved in a fatal car accident, which left a two-year-old girl dead.

Malini was rushed to the hospital by a local doctor in his car, but he didn't take the the injured two-year old or her family, along, local media reports said.

The girl's family waited for 20-25 minutes before help arrived.

"Had she been taken to the hospital along with Hema Malini, she would have been saved" the girl's uncle told NDTV , an Indian television network.

Long waits for emergency services are not unusual, say road safety campaigners. But that's something that might change as India moves forward with plans for its first nationwide emergency response system.

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