Breaking – Father carried dead daughter in personal car due to high ambulance fees

This father unable to pay a high ambulance fees to carry dead daughter

While our Prime Minister has recently bought two airplanes, there is a picture that has surfaced today from Kota, Rajasthan in which a man has tied the dead body of his daughter and nearly hung on the site seat, it to take her home for last rites.

The reason? He was asked for a very high fee by ambulance drivers ranging between Rs.15000 to 35000 to carry the corpse home. His daughter reportedly died of Covid.

The man, unable to pay that high an amount for 85 kilometres ride from Kota to Jhalawaar, hung the dead body in his car and drove her home.

While Kota Collector Ujjwal Ankur has reportedly aid that the matter was “being investigated”, the plight of the people in the absence of ambulances to carry the dead to home or burial ground or cremation ground abound in current India.

There are hosts of reports in which the dead had to be carried on a thela (cartwheel, in richshaw, or simply on shoulders. This case appeared in February 17 when one Aman was forced to carry the dead body of a relative on his shoulder after being allegedly denied an ambulance by a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal city. Following that, the family carried the body on a motorcycle home for the final rites.

A man in Kalahandi, had to carry his dead wife on his shoulder to home as the government hospital refused to provide an ambulance despite its free scheme

A man in Kalahandi, oddisha, few months back had to carry his dead wife on his shoulder to home as the government hospital refused to provide an ambulance despite its scheme that promises free ambulance services for the dead.

In another case, a dead body in a remote village in UP was dragged as the carriers didn’t have enough strength to carry the body on a long distance.

A case in UP

A R Rahmans Song “Ye jo des hai mera” from the film Swades today carries whole lot of relevance on the state of Indian affairs in receiving medical attention in the gravest of time.

The scores of dead bodies surfacing in the holy river Ganga has further exposed the ruling Indian government’s poor medical attention to the poor patients and their families.