Like Dilmaya, patients living in rural areas of the district are facing difficulties getting access to health services. Krishna Dura of Damauli, Vyas-11, complained that she could not get an ambulance despite suffering from a bout of asthma. She had to be taken to the hospital by a rickshaw. [break]
Chandra Bahadur Thapamagar of Rumsi, Keshavtar-6, carried his grandson, who was suffering from fever, to the hospital by walking on foot for three hours.
With the indefinite Maoist shutdown in place, patients are being denied access to treatment in the district.
One Khagisara Ale of Rumsi, Keshavtar-6, has already died in the district after being unable to get treatment for fever, according to Chandra Bahadur.
“We left for the hospital carrying him at 3 am. But he died on the way,” Chandra Bahadur said.
Patients´ attendant relatives complain that the Maoists are making people suffer by prolonging the strike. They demanded that the shutdown be immediately lifted. “People should not be made to suffer in the name of politics,” said 60-year-old Khamaya Ale of Kurlung, Keshavtar-7.
Khamaya, who has been attending to her sick grandson, also had to brave many problems to make sure that her grandson gets treatment.
With scarcity of ambulances in the district, most relatives are forced to carry the ill on their backs to the hospital.
There are just three ambulances in the hospital.
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