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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute, the agency that operates ‘108’ ambulance service for the State Health Department, has sacked 10 and suspended 11 staff members after an inquiry revealed that the workers were taking patients to a particular private hospital in the city. The hospital was allegedly offering the workers a commission. The HR team of the agency began a probe following a tip-off from an insider that a few ambulance staff were getting money from a private hospital and taking patients there, an official source said. As per primary information, a particular department in the hospital was engaging these staff to bring patients and paying commission. “But in the particular case, the staff were receiving commission from the hospital..