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MP: An 8-year-old child sits holding his 2-year-old brother’s body in his lap waiting for an ambulance in Morena
Interior Minister Narrottam Mishra said that the government took the matter very seriously and that the CEO of Jila Panchayat had been asked to submit a report on this in the evening. He said strong action will be taken against those responsible. The local government has provided some financial support to him. It is also alleged that most of the senior doctors inside the hospital were busy with prime minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s protest at the time.
Talking to TOI, Dr. Rakesh Sharma of CMHO said that there is no procedure for transporting the body to the hospital but in case if the family requests it, the family’s help will be provided through Rogi Kalyan Samiti. “In this case, the boy died on the way to the hospital from cardiac respiratory failure, possibly due to severe anemia. When we learned of the incident, we provided an ambulance.”
Kamal Nath State Parliament’s chief of staff also expressed grief over the incident, saying that after the intervention of some locals, a vehicle was arranged to carry the body.
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This heartbreaking footage of Morena went viral on Sunday, showing the state’s health care system once again. For two hours, the child sat with his brother’s body, next to a culvert and under a mural that read ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, while his father raced frantically to arrange a car he cannot buy.
As the message spread in the town of Morena, many people gathered and went looking for his father, Poojaram Jatav. He was caught begging and negotiating with the private ambulance driver at the district hospital to bring his son’s body home. When local media arrived and started asking questions, the hospital’s management – which allegedly refused to put him in an ambulance – took action and arranged for one.
Jatav, 45, took his two-year-old son Raja to the district hospital after being referred from Ambah hospital, about 35km away. Raja died during the treatment. The ambulance that took Jatav and his two sons to the hospital returned immediately. Jatav asked the doctors and ambulance staff to bring the body to his village, but they allegedly refused. He was supposed to rent one from outside.
