No ambulance, parents carry dead sons on shoulders for 15km
A couple from Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, were forced to carry the bodies of their two deceased sons from a hospital to their home 15km away in Pattigaon. The boys, aged less than 10 years, had succumbed to a fever after allegedly failing to receive timely medical treatment. With no paved road linking Pattigaon to the nearest health center in Jimlagatta, and no ambulance service accessible at the time, the parents were forced to carry their children's bodies.
Opposition leader shares chilling video, criticizes healthcare system
Leader of Opposition in Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar shared the distressing video showing the unidentified couple carrying their deceased sons' bodies on their shoulders along a muddy forest path. He stated that the boys' health rapidly declined due to delayed treatment and they died within hours. "There was no ambulance to even transfer the two minors' bodies to their village, Pattigaon and the parents were compelled to walk 15km through the rain-soaked muddy path," Wadettiwar said.
Opposition leader criticizes government officials, highlights healthcare issues
Wadettiwar criticized Bharatiya Janata Party's Devendra Fadnavis and Nationalist Congress Party's Dharmarao Baba Atram for their claims of state development while ignoring ground-level issues in Gadchiroli. "Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the Guardian Minister of this district. This is the constituency of Dharma Rao Baba Atram, the cabinet minister of the Grand Alliance, who captured the assembly constituency with a helicopter." "Both of them are saying how we can develop every day by taking events all over Maharashtra," Wadettiwar wrote.
The couple is from Aheri taluka
Healthcare crisis in remote village, parents' desperate journey
The incident took place on September 4 in the remote village of Pattigaon, and it was the second such incident from the Vidarbha region this week. On September 1, a pregnant tribal woman from Dahendri village in Melghat tribal region of Amravati delivered a stillborn child at home and later succumbed to her own pains after a local hospital failed to send an ambulance on time.
