Pregnant girl carried 6 km to hospital in Odisha

By Express News Service

PHULBANI: In absence of motorable highway for ambulance service, a 25-year-old pregnant girl was carried on a makeshift stretcher for round six km to the hospital in Kandhamal district on Sunday. A resident of Dumberigata village in Phiringia block, Bhumita Mallick complained of labour ache on Saturday evening.

In the morning, her relations organized a home made stretcher and carries her via the hilly terrain to Luisingh village from the place there’s a highway to Gochapada major well being centre (PHC). However, Mallick delivered a child boy on the way in which.

The girl and her new child have been later taken to the PHC in an auto-rickshaw. The well being facility is located round 20 km from Luisingha village. Both the mom and the new child are tremendous.Sources mentioned round 15 households reside in Dumberigata village.

Situated alongside Bagh river, there’s neither an anganwadi centre nor a college within the village. During wet season, the village stays lower off from the mainland. Salaguda sarpanch Rohit Kanhor mentioned he had requested the block improvement officer of Phiringia to assemble a motorable highway to the village and a bridge over Bagh river.

PHULBANI: In absence of motorable highway for ambulance service, a 25-year-old pregnant girl was carried on a makeshift stretcher for round six km to the hospital in Kandhamal district on Sunday. A resident of Dumberigata village in Phiringia block, Bhumita Mallick complained of labour ache on Saturday evening.

In the morning, her relations organized a home made stretcher and carries her via the hilly terrain to Luisingh village from the place there’s a highway to Gochapada major well being centre (PHC). However, Mallick delivered a child boy on the way in which.

The girl and her new child have been later taken to the PHC in an auto-rickshaw. The well being facility is located round 20 km from Luisingha village. Both the mom and the new child are tremendous.Sources mentioned round 15 households reside in Dumberigata village.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Situated alongside Bagh river, there’s neither an anganwadi centre nor a college within the village. During wet season, the village stays lower off from the mainland. Salaguda sarpanch Rohit Kanhor mentioned he had requested the block improvement officer of Phiringia to assemble a motorable highway to the village and a bridge over Bagh river.