After denial of ambulance, kin carry body for 500 metres

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Muzaffarpur, March 8: After Muzaffpur hospital officials refused to provide an ambulance for transportation of the dead body, the relatives had to carry the dead body of a woman for 500 metres after the Muzaffarpur Sadar Hospital officials denied ambulance to carry the dead body.

According to sources, the woman, identified as Shyama Devi was admitted to hospital for treatment on February 18. However, she succumbed to her illness on Tuesday evening. Her husband, identified as Suresh Mandal, is said to have approached the hospital management to arrange an ambulance to carry her body, but the authorities refused.

Suresh said that he and his relatives had to carry the body for 500 metres on foot until a kind-hearted autorickshaw agreed to take them home.

Reacting to the incident, Dr NK Chaudhary, deputy superintendent of the hospital, said that he was not aware of the incident and added that the ambulances are meant to shift the patients from one hospital to the another and not for bodies.

Sources said that it was not the first incident in the hospital. A few months ago, a patient who leg was severely injured was left to crawl on the floor to go out and catch an ambulance. In an another incident, police had to support the injured youth to shift him to the next ward after the hospital denied to provide a stretcher to the patient.

It is to be mention that in August 2016, a tribal man identified as Dana Majhi in Odisha had to carry his dead wife on his shoulder after the hospital officials refused to provide an ambulance.