Balrampur (Chhattisgarh): In an unfortunate incident, an old man died while he was being rushed to a hospital on a handcart due to the lack of proper medical and commutation facilities in the Vadrafnagar development block of the district. The deceased, identified as Ashok Paswan, worked as a laborer under the Vadrafnagar Nagar Panchayat, with only a nephew for a family.
The old man had been sick for a while due to old age and had no one to take proper care of him as he never got married. His nephew, who checked on him once in a while, realized that he had an extremely high fever and decided to take him to a hospital on Sunday. However, because of the lack of an ambulance facility in the village, he had to resort to a hand cart to carry the old man to a hospital. Some police officials saw the man pushing his sick old uncle on the cart and offered help.
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However, the doctors declared him brought dead on arrival at the hospital. Based on an initial medical check-up, the doctors said that Paswan may have died of starvation. However, a postmortem can reveal the exact reason, the officials said. "The old man had not eaten anything for a long time. This can be the cause of death. However, anything can be said for sure only after the post-mortem report comes," Dr. Shashank Gupta, Vadrafnagar Development Block Medical Officer from Balrampur said. He further informed a three-member committee of doctors has been formed for the post-mortem of the deceased.
Meanwhile, the villagers are disappointed at the lack of basic facilities in their vicinity, owing to which the man lost his life.
