NABARANGPUR:Negligence in ambulance services continues to give patients tough time in rural areas of the State. In yet another such incident, a pregnant woman had to be carried on shoulders by her family members after the calls for ambulance service failed on Monday.
According to Jagannath Gond, husband of the pregnant woman Rumai, of Ramapara village under Tohora gram panchayat in Umerkote block, they had called 102 and 108 ambulance services but the control unit failed to arrange one. With no other option for communication and Rumai in severe labour pain, Jagannath and other family members carried her for around 3 km to the nearest main road, from where they took a taxi to Umerkote Community Health Centre (CHC).
Rumai gave birth to a boy in the CHC and the condition of both mother and son is safe, said Chief District Medical Officer Arup Ghosh.
Rumai had come to her paternal village two days back, said Ghosh. Had her parents informed an Asha worker or ANM of the village, they would have registered her name and made advance planning for shifting her to CHC, he added.
It is learnt that there is no all-weather road to Ramapara. It is not accessible by a vehicle and in the past too, women had to face similar problems.