Chhattisgarh: Locals of Jabla village in Jashpur here carried a pregnant woman, experiencing labour pain, on a cot for about five kilometres to avail the facility of an ambulance.
The village lacks a proper road and the panchayat health centre is often faced with lack of staff.
“Vehicles cannot enter our village as there are no roads we have to carry patients to the main road from where an ambulance can be taken. In this case, we had to take the woman to the hospital by a private vehicle as the ambulance could not reach our village,” a local told reporters here.
The path to the main road is also only accessible to locals after they negotiate two drains on their way.
Bagicha Janpad’s Chief Executive Officer, Vinod Singh said that work on the road will be completed by the end of this year to ensure connectivity to the region.
“There had been such incidents in the past also and we had collected information about it. The construction of a bridge will begin by the end of the monsoon season and is expected to be completed by the end of this year,” the official said.
READ: Pregnant woman carried on cot for 2 km in Chhattisgarh village
Earlier this month, a pregnant woman was carried on a cot for more than 2 kilometres to reach the ambulance after the emergency vehicle failed to reach Titardand village under Shyang police limits in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Wednesday due to non-motorable road.
However, the woman delivered a healthy baby at the hospital and her condition was said to be stable. Residents of the villages alleged that despite repeated complaints, the district administration has not paid attention to their demands of constructing proper roads in their village. Villagers have to face a lot of difficulties as the ambulances fail to reach at the time of emergency.
With agency inputs
