Ambulance: Elderly Man Dies on the Way to Ambulance Due to Lack of Motorable Road | Bhubaneswar News
Rourkela: An elderly man died on Sunday while being taken to an ambulance on a cot for 2 km due to lack of motorable road from the hamlet in Sundargarh district’s Tangarpalli block. On Monday, sarpanch of Sanpatrapali panchayat Bibhuti Bhusan Oramsaid though he wrote to the zilla parishad in 2023 for a pucca road earlier, no action has been taken.
The deceased, Bichu Dandasena (75), from Amkunipada hamlet in Patakijore village fell ill on Saturday night.On Sunday morning, his family dialled 108 ambulance. But the ambulance could not reach his house for lack of motorable road in the hamlet and stopped 2 km away.
Finding no other alternative, some youths of the village along with the family members carried Dandasena on a cot and walked through the farmland for about 2 km, to reach ambulance. “Before Dandasena reached the ambulance, he died. His body was sent back in Mahaparayan vehicle but again had to be acrried in a cot for the last 2 km to his home,” said the sarpanch.
BDO (Tangarpalli) Ranjit Kumar Mahanto said he is unaware about absence of motorable road in the hamlet of the deceased and assured to look into it. TNN
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