In Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, due to the terror of Naxalites, even today roads have not been able to reach many villages. In such a situation, the ambulance driver and EMT in Bedre Bodam Para near Konta carried the patient on a cot for 18 kilometers on foot to the ambulance with the help of the cot on their shoulders. After this, the patient was admitted to the hospital.
Chief Medical and Health Officer Kapil Thakur said on Sunday that the patient was ill for four days. The family did not take him to the hospital, but when his health deteriorated further, they called 108 Sanjivani Ambulance, after which the EMT and the pilot of the vehicle took the patient to the hospital on foot. The family members said that Madiyam Pandu (25), resident of Bedre Bodam Para, was ill for four days. The family was unable to take him to any hospital, because of which the patient remained lying at home for four days. Seeing the deterioration in the patient’s health, the family called 108 Sanjivani Express in the afternoon.
He told that EMT Rohit and pilot Dilip of Ambulance 108 went to pick up the patient with their vehicle. After parking the ambulance on the road in the middle of the village, they reached Bedre Bodam Para village on foot with the family members, where the patient was in no condition to walk. In such a situation, the ambulance driver along with the family members made the patient sleep on a cot and then carried him on their shoulders with the help of a stick and took the patient to the ambulance after a journey of 18 km. After this, he was taken to PHC Basaguda and admitted.
Kapil Thakur said that such cases keep coming up many times in Sukma district due to lack of roads in many interior areas. 108 ambulance could not reach the village of Bodam Para near Silger in Sukma district and after that the ambulance staff brought the patient to the ambulance with the help of a cot and admitted him to the hospital. The condition of the patient is said to be normal.
