By Praveen Dwivedi
Bhopal, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a shocking scene, a 8-year-old boy is seen seated with the body of his 3-year-old brother on his lap in Madhya Pradesh as his family desperately looks around for an ambulance, as per a video going viral.
In the video, taken in the state's Morena, the boy is seen seated on the ground, against a wall, waiting for his father to take the body home for cremation. The father was seen searching for a vehicle to take the body home as the hospital refused to provide an ambulance.
As per reports, villager Poojaram Jatav had brought his three-year-old son Raja to the district hospital. Raja was suffering from anaemia, and succumbed during the treatment at the government-run district hospital.
As the ambulance that brought Raja from Ambah Hospital had returned immediately, Jatav asked the doctors and staff of the hospital for a vehicle to take the body back to the village but they refused, saying that there was no vehicle in the hospital, and asked him to hire another vehicle.
A hapless Jatav then came out of the hospital with the body of Raja, along with his eight-year-old son Gulshan.
On receiving the information, SHO Yogendra Singh reached the spot. He picked up the body and went straight to the district hospital. Soon, the hospital administration arranged an ambulance and the body was sent to home.
This is the third such incident reported from the state in the last five months.
Opposition Congress slammed the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government over the incident.
Veteran Congress leader and former Chief Minister, Kamal Nath took to Twitter to slam Chouhan and urged him to strengthen the medical system in the state.
"I again request you that as the head of the state, you should strengthen the medical system so that seven crore people of the state do not have to suffer for your negligence.
"I want to know from Chief Minister that why cases of non-availability of ambulances keep coming up in Madhya Pradesh at regular intervals. Sometimes a pregnant woman has to lose her life due to non-availability of an ambulance, and sometimes people have to take their sick relatives to the hospital on a cot," he said in a series of tweets about Sunday's incident.
Source: IANS
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