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Road accident sufferer carried on JCB machine to hospital for need of ambulance in MP’s Katni district

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By Express News Service

BHOPAL: Viral movies proceed to reveal the state of well being companies in Madhya Pradesh.
The newest video to go viral pertains to a highway accident sufferer youth being carried on a JCB machine to a hospital for the need of an ambulance in Katni district.

The incident occurred just lately in Barahi space of Katni district when a person recognized as Mahesh Barman needed to be carried to the hospital by the JCB machine within the absence of ambulance. Two movies of the alleged incident went viral over social media on Tuesday.

“He (Mahesh Barman) had a fractured leg in the accident at Khitauli Road. But with no ambulance being available and three to four auto rickshaw drivers refusing to help, the injured had to be taken to the hospital by my JCB machine,” Pushpendra Vishwakarma, the native Janpad Panchayat member and proprietor of the JCB machine mentioned.

It was in entrance of Pushpendra’s store that the highway accident had occurred. When contacted concerning the matter, a well being division official in Katni district, mentioned, “since the agency operating the Dial 108 ambulance has been changed, hence a 108 ambulance in the concerned area wasn’t available. They tried to get an ambulance from CHC in Vijayraghavgarh, but owing to delay couldn’t get one. There were two ambulances present at the CHC in Barahi, had they rung there, they would have definitely got them. I’ll ask the staff to publicise the availability of ambulances at the CHC in Barahi.”

But this is not the primary time such a video has uncovered the state of well being companies within the state. Last month, movies of pregnant ladies being taken on JCB machine in Neemuch, a severely in poor health lady being taken on a bullock cart in Betul, a pregnant lady being taken in an auto rickshaw in Rewa district, an ailing previous man being carried available pushed cart in Bhind and a pregnant lady being carried in an identical method by husband in Damoh, all reportedly for the need of ambulances had gone viral.

Importantly, in April this yr, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, at a operate, introduced the variety of ambulances had gone up from 1,445 to 2,052. The variety of Advanced Life Support Vehicles additionally elevated from 75 to 167. Basic Life Support Ambulances, whose quantity was 531, was elevated to 835.

Just a month earlier than it in March, researchers on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis of the state authorities, had, nonetheless, mentioned the Dial 108 ambulance service — on which authorities spends Rs 220 crore a yr — is unable to function many as 53 circumstances each day in every district.
The variety of sufferers who must resort to personal ambulances is 10 lakh a yr.

BHOPAL: Viral movies proceed to reveal the state of well being companies in Madhya Pradesh.
The newest video to go viral pertains to a highway accident sufferer youth being carried on a JCB machine to a hospital for the need of an ambulance in Katni district.

The incident occurred just lately in Barahi space of Katni district when a person recognized as Mahesh Barman needed to be carried to the hospital by the JCB machine within the absence of ambulance. Two movies of the alleged incident went viral over social media on Tuesday.

“He (Mahesh Barman) had a fractured leg in the accident at Khitauli Road. But with no ambulance being available and three to four auto rickshaw drivers refusing to help, the injured had to be taken to the hospital by my JCB machine,” Pushpendra Vishwakarma, the native Janpad Panchayat member and proprietor of the JCB machine mentioned.

It was in entrance of Pushpendra’s store that the highway accident had occurred. When contacted concerning the matter, a well being division official in Katni district, mentioned, “since the agency operating the Dial 108 ambulance has been changed, hence a 108 ambulance in the concerned area wasn’t available. They tried to get an ambulance from CHC in Vijayraghavgarh, but owing to delay couldn’t get one. There were two ambulances present at the CHC in Barahi, had they rung there, they would have definitely got them. I’ll ask the staff to publicise the availability of ambulances at the CHC in Barahi.”

But this is not the primary time such a video has uncovered the state of well being companies within the state. Last month, movies of pregnant ladies being taken on JCB machine in Neemuch, a severely in poor health lady being taken on a bullock cart in Betul, a pregnant lady being taken in an auto rickshaw in Rewa district, an ailing previous man being carried available pushed cart in Bhind and a pregnant lady being carried in an identical method by husband in Damoh, all reportedly for the need of ambulances had gone viral.

Importantly, in April this yr, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, at a operate, introduced the variety of ambulances had gone up from 1,445 to 2,052. The variety of Advanced Life Support Vehicles additionally elevated from 75 to 167. Basic Life Support Ambulances, whose quantity was 531, was elevated to 835.

Just a month earlier than it in March, researchers on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis of the state authorities, had, nonetheless, mentioned the Dial 108 ambulance service — on which authorities spends Rs 220 crore a yr — is unable to function many as 53 circumstances each day in every district.
The variety of sufferers who must resort to personal ambulances is 10 lakh a yr.