Tag: Ambulance

Man carries pregnant wife to hospital on pushing cart
Man carries pregnant wife to hospital on pushing cart

Left with no choice, he then put his wife on a push-cart and rushed her to the local Arogya Kendra where no nurse or doctor was available, Kailash claimed.

  • Wednesday, 31 August 2022
No end to plight of patients: sans motorable road, woman carried on makeshift palanquin in Odisha
Sans motorable road, pregnant woman carried on sling in Odisha

The incident happened in Tetre village of Sarangarh gram Panchayat. Sources said Aarati Malik complained of labour pain on Monday following which the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker of the village rang up 102 ambulance service.

  • Tuesday, 02 August 2022
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Watch: Ambulance Crashes Into Tollgate In Karnataka, 4 Including Patient Killed

A bone-chilling video has surfaced from Udupi district in Karnataka. These visuals have been captured in the CCTV camera installed at the toll gate at Byndoor. Watch how an ambulance coming at a high speed rammed into the tollgate. In the video, we can see the tollgate staff trying to clear the barricades. The driver applies brakes following which the ambulance skidded, crashed into the tollgate and overturned.

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  • Thursday, 21 July 2022
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Traffic stalls ambulance for 4 hours in Bolangir

Bolangir: A tuberculosis patient from Tepsa village in Kalahandi district today faced a testing four hours when an ambulance carrying him was stuck in a traffic jam on Bolangir-Titlagarh road. As per reports, the patient identified as Hari Majhi was being carried in the ambulance from Titlagarh hospital to Bolangir district headquarters hospital. However, the […]

  • Friday, 30 July 2021
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Denied hearse vehicle, kin carry body of youth for 10 km on foot

Malkangiri: Despite tall claims of government to provide basic healthcare infrastructure in remote areas of the state, nothing seems to have changed in reality. Lest, incidents of non availability of hearse or ambulances wouldn’t have been trickling in from every part every day. Like the incident reported today where the body of a youth was […]

  • Friday, 30 July 2021
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Pregnant woman carried in sling: An incident a day mocks health schemes of Odisha

Malkangiri: Highlighting the poor rural infrastructure and healthcare in Odisha, a pregnant woman was carried in a sling for nearly five kms after an ambulance failed to reach her village due to lack of motorable road. The incident was reported from Lachhamipur village under Gunthabeda panchayat in Malkangiri district today. As per reports, a woman […]

  • Wednesday, 28 July 2021
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Gurupriya Bridge brings development to doorsteps

Malkangiri: After 6 long decades, several cut-off areas are finally able to receive their share of development. The Gurupriya Bridge in Chitrakonda, which was inaugurated by CM Naveen Patnaik in July this year, is now enabling residents to access PDS while emergency services like ambulance can now reach these areas without any hassles. Buses have […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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When an ambulance had to wait for CM's Carcade to pass

Bhubaneswar: Raising questions on the importance of free passage to ambulances in smart city, today an incident of an ambulance carrying a critical patient and getting stuck for over five minutes in a serpentine queue of vehicles near Forest park here has shocked one and all. The ambulance was stuck in traffic chaos  that had […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Patient carried on cot in Odisha, again

Balasore: In yet another incident of ambulance failure due to bad road connectivity, a patient was carried on a cot to hospital at Gadapokhari village under Khaira block of Balasore district. According to sources daughter of Raghunath Biswal fell ill following which the family members called a 108 ambulance over phone. However, the ambulance failed […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
Expectant mother carried on cot due to poor road connectivity

Bolangir: Lack of road connectivity yet again turns out to be a deterrent to health services as a pregnant woman was carried on a cot for 2 kms in Dhunakeda village under Saintala block here on Saturday raising questions on the much hyped Janani Surakhya programmes in the tribal district. According to sources, Mangulu Chatria’s […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
Man or inhuman: Woman in labour denied access by neighbour to reach ambulance

Balasore: Deteriorating healthcare in state has been a perennial problem but mankind losing morals and humanity seems way too much to accept. In such an inhuman act, a villager denied an expectant mother in Kasindipur village under Khaira block of the district access through his house to board an ambulance stationed in the village to […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Shocking! Ambulance staff abandons body on road over payment

Soro: Shaming humanity, an elderly man’s dead body was allegedly abandoned on the roadside by ambulance staff near Paikali bridge in Balasore after an acquaintance of the deceased failed to pay for the service. The elderly man, identified as Rehman Khan of Allahabad, was working as a daily wage labourer at Chintamanipada in Soro. Yesterday, […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Odisha to introduce boat ambulances and upgrade 108 service

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to augment the existing healthcare delivery system, Odisha government has decided to allocate six boat ambulances in four districts where people are facing problems in availing 108 ambulance service. The boat ambulance service will be made available in Koraput, Kendrapara, Kalahandi and Malkangiri districts through state funds, said P K Meherda, […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Ambulance driver suspended for refusing to carry dead body

Bhubaneswar: A day after a ‘108’ ambulance refused to carry the dead body of a minor boy, the driver of the vehicle has been suspended from service. Following the direction of the National Health Mission (NHM) Director Shalini Pandit, the company also suspended the concerned call centre executive for dereliction in duty. The ambulance driver […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Man carries pregnant wife on shoulder

Rayagada: Making a mockery of the Janani Suraksha Yojana of the Odisha government yet again, a pregnant woman reached Kalyansinghpur Community Health Centre (CHC) in Rayagada district today after being carried on the shoulder of her husband today as the 102 ambulance did not turn up in time. According to reports, Bangari Praska, a pregnant […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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