Harjinder Singh is a 76-year-old auto driver in Delhi. But he is unlike any other. A former traffic warden, Harjinder Singh couples his auto as a free ambulance service.

The septuagenarian works extra hours to save money for the ambulance runs.

As a traffic warden, I saw many crash victims and wanted to help them. It was only after buying an auto that I could realise this goal, Harjinder Singh told Times of India.

After Harjinder finishes his daily work hours, he refuels his vehicle and roams around accident-prone areas in the city. He says, on an average, he helps a victim in a day.

If, god forbids, I come across an accident victim, I rush the victim to the nearest hospital so that a life is saved," Harjinder Singh told the newspaper, adding that there has been no looking back since the day he started his auto ambulance service.

Harjinder's ambulance does not only provide free rides to the hospital. The senior citizen has also taken a course in first aid to help victims in emergency situations. Earlier I didn’t have a medicine box in my vehicle nor did I know how to apply the medicines. So I took a small course to figure out what medicines could be used in emergency situations. There is no better feeling than being of help to someone, Harjinder Singh said. He also offers free diabetes medicines to anyone who asks for it.

The medicine box is funded by the money collected in a donation box Harjinder has placed in his auto.

In so many cases, people die on the road just because they don’t get timely help. People stand and look at them dying. I don’t want to be one of them, Harjinder Singh said.