Patient Carried On Cot For 1.5 Km Due To Lack Of Road In Balasore Village
Patient Carried On Cot For 1.5 Km Due To Lack Of Road In Balasore Village
by Pabitra Mohan Senapaty
Thu, Sep 05 | 11:45 a.m.
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Another example of the preceding BJD government's negligence in rural infrastructure has come to the fore in Balasore district's Jaleswar area. Due to the unavailability of a motorable road, a patient had to be carried on a cot to a hospital.
The sordid incident was reported from Sialagadia village under Jaleswar block in the wee hours of Thursday.
Balasore, Sep 5: Another example of the preceding BJD government's negligence in rural infrastructure has come to the fore in Balasore district's Jaleswar area. Due to the unavailability of a motorable road, a patient had to be carried on a cot to a hospital.
The sordid incident was reported from Sialagadia village under Jaleswar block in the wee hours of Thursday.
According to the information, a woman, Rekhabati Singh, got one of her legs fractured as she fell from a high place during work yesterday. Though family members called for a 108 ambulance, the patient-carrier vehicle could not come to the village due to the unavailability of an all-weather road and was stranded at a distance of 1.5 km. The village road was severely muddy due to incessant rains.
With no other option left, family members carried the injured woman on a cot to the place where the ambulance was stranded.
"We had approached concerned offices many times during the BJD government. But all our efforts fell on deaf ears," rued villagers.
