Exposing the rickety health infrastructure in remote areas, family members of a 52-year-old ill woman carried her on their shoulders for 12 kms to reach the nearest medical facility in Uttarakhand's Badiyar.
Shakuntala Devi, a resident of Dingadi village in Uttarkashi district, was suffering from acute dehydration and fever for a week. When homemade remedies did not work, her family members on Monday decided to carry her on their shoulders to see a doctor in Sarnol, 12 km away.
They put the woman on a chair, tied it to a bamboo-made frame, and carried it on their shoulders to take her to the first doctor available.
"This is the sorry state of affairs of health facilities in about eight villages of Badiyar in the district even seven decades after Independence and 22 years since Uttarakhand's creation," social worker Kailash Rawat said.
He said in Badiyar, villages such as Sar, Dingadi, Gothuka, Panti, Kimdar and Levtadi lack any kind of health facilities.
It is not just health, there are no proper roads or educational facilities in the area, the social workers said.
"Not just Shakuntala Devi, many sick people from the area have been taken on 'dandis' to nearest health centres and several of them succumbed on the way," he added.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Uniform Civil Code To Be Implemented In Uttarakhand In 2025: Chief Minister Massive Speed Breaker Turns Nightmare, Throws Rider Off His Scooter In Dehradun Unable To Pay For Ambulance, Uttarakhand Family Takes Son's Body On Car Roof Google Slashes 10% Of Managerial Staff In Hunt For 'Googleyness': Report Hardeep Puri vs Shashi Tharoor Over 2009 Dinner With George Soros In US Tabla Legend Zakir Hussain's Funeral Held In San Francisco 16-Year-Old JEE Student From Bihar Found Hanging From Fan In Kota: Police UK PM Keir Starmer Nominates Indian-Origin Krish Raval For Peerage Key Ally To Canada PM Trudeau Says He Will Vote To Bring Him Down Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.