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Written By: Agencies | Published : September 4, 2016 2:05 PM IST
In yet another shocking incident after Dana Majhi's case in Odisha, a 108 ambulance driver allegedly ordered the parents of a seven-year-old girl to get off midway after the child died in Malkangiri district on Friday.The deceased, identified as Barsha Khemudu of Ghusapalli in the district, was being taken along with her parents in the 108 ambulance from the Mithali hospital to the Malkangiri district hospital following deterioration in her health. Read: Ambulances for medical emergencies. Facts you should know.
However, the 108 ambulance driver allegedly asked the parents of the child to get down at Nayakguda after the girl died. We were forcibly deboarded from the ambulance after our daughter died, said Dinabandhu Khemudu, the father of the deceased. Meanwhile, the district administration has lodged an FIR against three persons, including the driver and a pharmacist, for dereliction of duty.
District collector K. Sudarshan Chakrabarty said an FIR has been lodged against three persons following the incident. He also said that the block administration has been asked to provide all possible facilities to the parents under government rules. Recently, Odisha made headlines for Dana Majhi, who had to walk for 10 km with his wife's body on his shoulders after he failed to get a hearse or an ambulance from Kalahandi district hospital to his village.
Following this appalling incident, on SaturdayNoted NGO Sulabh International on Saturday handed over a fixed deposit receipt of Rs 5 lakh to Dana Manjhi, a poor villager of Odisha who was forced to carry his wife's body for 10 km as the district hospital in Kalahandi refused to provide him an ambulance. The NGO will also give Rs 10,000 every month to Manjhi for the education of his daughters, it said in a statement.
A representative of Sulabh International visited Manjhi's house and handed over the fixed deposit slip of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10,000 cash, it said. According to Brindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, the NGO was ready to extend any other help if required. Manjhi had told the hospital authorities that he could not afford to hire a vehicle to transport the body of his wife who died of tuberculosis, but they allegedly denied him a hearse.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Odisha human rights panel issued notices to the hospital in Bhawanipatna over the undignified treatment meted out to the dead body. The incident triggered a nationwide outcry after Manjhi, accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter, was seen walking with his wife's body on his shoulder. An ambulance was arranged only after he had covered 10 km to take the body to his home in Melghara village, about 60 km from Bhawanipatna. Read: State of ambulances services pathetic in Maharashtra.
Source: IANS
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