Tag: Ambulance Failure

Kalahandi: Mocking at the failing healthcare facilities in the rural areas in the state, another case of ambulance failure has resulted in the death of an unborn child while the pregnant woman is still fighting for life. The incident happened at Kansabundei village under Lanjigarh block, where despite calling 102 ambulance to carry a pregnant […]

Bhubaneswar:  State Health Minister Pratap Jena on Wednesday ordered a probe into the incident of a pregnant woman being carried on shoulders by family members allegedly due to 102 and 108 ambulance failure in Rampara village of Nabarangpur district. The minister further ordered a departmental inquiry into the failure of the ambulance service in this […]

Bhadrak: Being rebuffed by police and 108 ambulance a son had to carry the body of his dead father on a cycle-trolley to a hospital at Nathasahi village in Utarbahini under Purunabazar police station of Bhadrak district today. The deceased identified as Bhajahari Nath had consumed poision for some reason and had died two kilometres […]

Berhampur: Absence of motorable roads and lack of bridges across several streams in remote areas of Odisha continue to haunt people depriving them of timely healthcare services in the State. On Saturday, another incident of a pregnant woman being carried on cot was reported from Ganjam district. According to reports, Hiramani Nayak of Kaduabada village […]

Ganjam: Going by the deteriorating healthcare services in the State, it seems the Odisha government has failed miserably to provide even basic medical facilities to the people in the interior areas as yet again a pregnant woman was carried on cot due to absence of motorable road to a village in Ganjam district. The woman, […]

Keonjhar: Failure of ambulance services to reach villages in Odisha due to poor road connectivity has become common in the State with one more incident being reported from Nuadiha village in Keonjhar district today. According to reports, one Urmala Mohanty of Nuadiha village was ailing with high fever following which her family members called up […]

A pregnant woman from Bidarpakhana village under Paparmetla block in the district had to be carried on cot to hospital after her family members failed to contact an ambulance in Malkangiri district on Saturday. The woman, identified as the wife of Arjun Khara of Bidarpakhana village, developed labour pain yesterday evening.

Bhubaneswar: Despite various welfare schemes, reports of expectant mothers being carried on shoulders to hospitals and delivering midway have now become a regular feature owing to absence of road connectivity in several parts in Odisha. The benefits of such welfare schemes fail to reach beneficiaries on the ground which was again evident from three different […]

Malkangiri: A pregnant woman was carried in a sling for nearly three kilometres after ambulance failed to reach her due to lack of proper road connectivity to Dutelguda village under Korukonda block here today. According to reports, one Parbati Khila of the village developed labour pain in the morning. Though the family members had called […]

Dhenkanal: Tension erupted at Dhanianali village under Nihalaprasad police limits of Dhenkanal district after an irate mob went berserk vandalising an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman. Sources said two minor girls of the village- Purnima Hembram and Rajani Hembram- drowned in a village pond. However, villagers thinking them to be alive had called a 108 […]

Keonjhar: In an unfortunate incident, a woman today delivered a stillborn girl child after the 102 ambulance in which she was being carried to Karanjia hospital overturned near Tilabeda on National Highway-220 under Saharpada block of Keonjhar district. As per sources, Budhuni Munda, wife of Narendra Munda of Chakundapala village here complained of labour pain […]

Nayagarh: A pregnant woman was carried on a stretcher for one km in cut-off areas of Kanadi village under Daspalla block here as ambulance couldn’t reach her due to absence of motorable road to the village. The woman, Sabita Jani, reportedly delivered a baby boy in the ambulance while being shifted to Daspalla hospital. As […]

Nuapada: In another glaring mockery of the tall claims made by Odisha government on health care infrastructure, a woman was forced to deliver baby on the foothills of a mountain at Samatpur village in Nuapada district after ambulance failed to reach her. As per reports, the family members of the woman called an ambulance after […]

Mayurbhanj: Call it irresponsibility or unpreparedness of the medical authorities, a pregnant woman lost her life while she was on her way to the hospital after the ambulance she was in ran out of fuel midway. According to sources, one Chittaranjan Munda admitted his wife to Bangiriposhi hospital after she complained of labour pain last […]

Nabarangpur: At a time when officials of Odisha Government are visiting hospitals to ensure that assistance under ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiative is reaching the needy, a woman in Nabarangpur was forced to deliver baby boy on roadside after ambulance allegedly failed to reach on time. Though the health condition of mother is stated to be stable, […]