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| Amidst biting cold, attendants carry patients on shoulders due to lack of roads | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 16: Two shocking incidents were reported from Jammu and Kashmir in which patients had to be carried all the way to the hospital on shoulders due to lack of connectivity of road. A video shows attendants of hospitals in Ganderbal and Uri ferrying patients on their shoulders in bitter cold conditions for several kilometres.
The old-aged patient from Uri had suffered a stroke. However, there were no pakka roads in the village to carry the patient to the hospital in the emergency situation. Both the patients were fortunate to have survived. Lack of basic facilities such as roads is an exposure to the development in these areas.
In a similar incident, a pregnant woman was carried by a group of men to a hospital which was seven kilometres away as there were no roads in her village in Andhra Pradesh's Vizianagaram district in September 2018. She was carried downhill in a palanquin. The men had to halt the journey midway when the woman could not handle the pain. The woman, on her way to the hospital, delivered a baby boy. Another woman from the same district had to be carried to the hospital in a similar way in July 2018. However, the patient lost her child in this case.
These incidents illustrate how authorities have failed to provide basic facilities to people in remote parts of the country. Citizens who face medical emergencies have no other option than carrying the patient on their shoulders or in palanquins like bundles of hay. |
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