Madhya Pradesh: Health systems in rural areas are poor, patients are suffering!

When an ambulance was not found in Alirajpur, the patient was carried away in a bag, in Chhatarpur the relatives took the pregnant woman on a cot.
Published on: Aug 01, 2023 at 7:12 pm
Bhopal. Viral pictures are telling the condition of poor health services, dilapidated roads and neglect of the administration in Madhya Pradesh. Recently, a video surfaced from Chhatarpur in the state, where the pregnant woman did not get an ambulance during labor pain, so she had to be taken to the hospital on a cot. The second video is from the tribal zone of Alirajpur district where the ambulance could not reach the village due to lack of road, then the victim was made a bag by tying a cloth on a wood and taken for treatment.
The first case is of Bakswaha in Chhatarpur district. Due to non-availability of an ambulance here, a case has come to the fore of taking a woman on a cot for delivery, a video of which is going viral, in which the villagers left on the cot when the ambulance could not reach due to lack of access to the village.
In fact, last day a pregnant woman had labor pain in Dardonia village under Bakswaha development block. The relatives called 108 ambulance but due to lack of road till the village, the ambulance was standing 2 km away. Due to which the relatives had to travel 2 kilometers by carrying the pregnant woman on a cot. The woman could be taken to an ambulance after covering a distance of 2 kilometers on a cot. After this the woman was brought to Community Health Center Bakswaha.

People carrying a patient from Jaitpur of Village Panchayat Vav of Alirajpur to the hospital with the help of a stick. The Mooknayak
Here, another video has come to the fore from Jaitpur of Vav Gram Panchayat of Alirajpur. In this, some people are taking a patient to the hospital in a bag with the help of wood. The people of the village are facing this difficulty because there is no road in the village. The villagers said that a road was built here during the state period, after that no one built the road till date. He said that many times such a situation comes in front of us.
Kailash Tomar, the former sarpanch of the village, said that on Monday around 11 am, the health of 40-year-old Goop Singh, a resident of Jaitpur, suddenly worsened. It was to be taken to Katthiwada for treatment. But due to the vehicle getting stuck in the mud on the way, the patient had to be carried in a bag with the help of a stick and taken to a distance of 5 km. According to the villagers, people from villages Kanera, Sadli, Panala, Dungar village, Pratappura, Karha, Jetpur and Vav come and go from this road to Katthiwada tehsil. The villagers of Kakadpa in Gujarat also have to come and go from here. The villagers have demanded a solution to the problem from the District President, MLA, MP and Chief Minister.