M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, June 30: There is a great hullabaloo over carting a woman’s body in Panki in Palamu. It is alleged the husband didn’t get the ambulance or hearse and so he had to carry his dead wife on a cart!
The ground reality is different. The cart that carried the body first was the best mode at that point of time when death was just stalking the woman.
Any wait for the ambulance for a distance of only 500 meters from the house to the community health centre (CHC) at Panki would have been an unwise and inhuman act as any wait for the ambulance would have meant too big a wait.
The deceased woman is Kiran Devi, 55, wife of Ram Brikch Bhuiyan a resident of Pandeypura village barely 500 meters away from the community health centre at Panki.
On June 26, her health failed terribly and her husband who hand drives a wooden cart took her on his wooden cart and drove her in all medical emergency to the community health centre at Panki, 500 meters away from the place Pandeypura where he lives.
The doctor on duty declared her brought dead.
Ram Brikch Bhuiyan did not raise any noise as he was himself convinced that his wife was not going to survive any more.
He carted her back home. The Mukhiya of the Pandeypura panchayat Prem Prasad has corroborated the version of Ram Brikch Bhuiyan saying there is no need to wait for an ambulance to cover a distance of 500 meters only in such a medical emergency where death was all imminent.
The Mukhiya said Ram Brikch has no grievance of any kind against the doctor or for the ambulance as he did the wisest thing when he rushed his wife to the government community health centre by his own hand-driven cart.
Palamu Civil Surgeon Dr Ashok Kumar said the situation and the distance must have made Ram Brikch Bhuiyan to act fast by using his own wooden cart without waiting for any ambulance for a distance of 500 meters or so as in such a health emergency reaching the health centre is far more important than to ask for by which mode of transportation.
