TRAGEDY CALLED INDIA

Dead Child denied Ambulance

Uttar Pradesh: In yet another heart-rending incident, a woman ran from one hospital to another with her daughter's body and was forced to spend a night outside the emergency wing of the district hospital with the dead child after ambulance drivers allegedly refused to take them to their village as it was in another district.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Gulnad, a resident of Baghpat district, was suffering from a viral infection and undergoing treatment at P L Sharma government hospital but, her condition deteriorated and doctors referred her to Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College (LLRMC) Hospital.

Her mother Imrana took her to the LLRMC hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. Imrana charged that she pleaded with the hospital ambulance driver for two hours to take the body to her village Gauripur but he refused, saying he is not allowed to travel to other districts.

Child falls unconscious as Cop drags

Madhya Pradesh: A GRP constable was caught on camera dragging a minor, suspected to be a pickpocket, by a towel tied around his neck at Gwalior Railway station, promoting authorities to take the cop off field duty and launch a probe. The incident occurred at platform number 1 and a purported video of the act has gone viral after which Government Railway Police (GRP) took head-constable Hari Narayan Singh (50) off field duty. A passenger had lodged a complaint with the GRP that his pocket was picked. Singh suspected that the boy was the culprit and caught hold of him. In the video, Singh is purportedly seen dragging through the minor through the platform who appears to have fallen unconscious.

Boy dies on father’s shoulder for want of medical help

Kanpur: Deteriorating health facilities at hospitals in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh have been magnified by the death of a 12-year-old boy on his father’s shoulder because he was denied timely access to medical facilities at different hospitals.

The incident took place on August 26 when Ansh, a resident of Kanpur’s Fazalganj area, was admitted to a medical facility with high fever.

After being treated in private hospitals for two days, his father finally took him to the Hallet Hospital.

Doctors at the hospital told the father to take Ansh to the children’s ward, but by the time Ansh’s father, Sunil, carried Ansh to the children’s ward, the 12-year-old boy died.

“My son had high fever. He was studying in class sixth. He was very good at his studies. Doctors at the children’s ward told me had I arrived 10 minutes before, my son would have been saved,” the father said carrying his dead son on his shoulder.

“It is negligence on the part of the Hallet Hospital. They did not provide treatment to my son. They didn’t even provide me a stretcher. I was running from here to there carrying my son on my shoulder,” a teary Sunil said.