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Pregnant woman carried 3 km on stretcher in Odisha’s Koraput
A pregnant woman in labour was carried three kilometres on a stretcher by ambulance staff and family in Odisha's Koraput district because her village has no motorable road. The incident occurred in…
The Story in Brief
A pregnant woman in labour was carried three kilometres on a stretcher by ambulance staff and family in Odisha's Koraput district because her village has no motorable road. The incident occurred in Shrigamput village under Atand panchayat in Nandapur block, odishatv.in reports.
Mani Khillo went into severe labour pain at home. The ambulance could not reach the village and stopped three km away. Driver Gopal Krishna Nayak, pharmacist Rahul Pangi, and attendant Deepak Patra carried her on a stretcher to the vehicle. She was taken to Nandapur community health centre and is now stable.
The Indian Opinion
The viral image of a pregnant woman being stretchered three km in 2025 ought to puncture any complacency about rural connectivity. Official claims of village road coverage sound hollow when a block like Nandapur still has hamlets cut off. The test is not whether the ambulance crew helped, they did, commendably, but whether the government will now build a road to Shrigamput. How many more such incidents will it take?
Source: odishatv.in
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