05 September,2016 12:47 PM IST | | Agencies
Woman ran from one hospital to another with her daughter’s body and was forced to spend a night outside the emergency wing of the district hospital with the body after ambulance drivers allegedly refused to take them to their village as it was in another district
Meerut: A woman ran from one hospital to another with her daughter's body and was forced to spend a night outside the emergency wing of the district hospital with the body after ambulance drivers allegedly refused to take them to their village as it was in another district.
Gulnad (2), a resident of Baghpat district, was undergoing treatment at government-run PL Sharma Hospital for viral fever, but on Thursday night, her condition deteriorated and doctors referred her to Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College (LLRMC) Hospital here. Her mother Imrana took her to LLRMC hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.
Imrana alleged that for two hours, she pleaded with the hospital ambulance driver to take the body to her village, Gauripur, but he refused, saying he is not allowed to travel to other districts. Imrana then took the body to the district hospital in a private ambulance after paying R200, but there, too, she was denied service.
The next morning, some people chipped in and hired a private ambulance to take the body to her village. Jagatraj Tripathi, district magistrate, Meerut, said, "This incident has not come to my notice yet. But I will order an investigation into it."
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