Sick Woman Carried On Shoulders For 12 Km To See Doctor In Uttarakhand
NDTV
Uttarakhand: The woman sat on a chair which was tied it to a bamboo-made frame, and her relatives carried it on their shoulders.
Exposing the rickety health infrastructure in remote areas, family members of a 52-year-old ill woman carried her on their shoulders for 12 kms to reach the nearest medical facility in Uttarakhand's Badiyar.
Shakuntala Devi, a resident of Dingadi village in Uttarkashi district, was suffering from acute dehydration and fever for a week. When homemade remedies did not work, her family members on Monday decided to carry her on their shoulders to see a doctor in Sarnol, 12 km away.
They put the woman on a chair, tied it to a bamboo-made frame, and carried it on their shoulders to take her to the first doctor available.
"This is the sorry state of affairs of health facilities in about eight villages of Badiyar in the district even seven decades after Independence and 22 years since Uttarakhand's creation," social worker Kailash Rawat said.
