Andhra Pradesh villagers carry pregnant woman on cot for 9 km to hospital

Demudamma, a tribal pregnant woman was carried in a cot for 9 km to a hospital from a small village in S Kota Mandal of Vijayanagaram district on Wednesday.

The ambulance could not reach her village because of the lack of proper road connectivity. Family members and villagers tied her to a handmade Doli (a sling or stretcher) and carried her for 9 kilometers to the hospital.

While taking the pregnant woman to the hospital, they shouted slogans like the CM Jagan Anna would solve all their problems. The woman who was carrying the cot said, “Jagan is resolving all the problems and laying roads to all villages in our tribal area. He will do it in our village also. We have high hopes for CM Jagan Mohan Reddy.”

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his father YS Rajasekhar Reddy are almost like Demi-Gods for the tribal areas that’s why the YSRCP won all reserved seats for the scheduled tribes.

Jagan Mohan Reddy assured all kinds of help. Of late, thousands of ambulances were launched to cater to the health needs of the people. The government boasted that the ambulances can go to any place in the state within 20 minutes but the fact remains different in a remote area of Vijayanagaram District.

BJP leader Lanka Dinakar told The Daily Guardian, “We had heard a ‘Doli’ for moving patients or old aged people in older days when there was no infrastructure and 108 or 104 Vehicles, but today we are in technological driven facilities around the nooks and corners in the state of Andhra Pradesh as per government records. But, unfortunately, today’s incident in Vijayanagaram district that a pregnant woman being carried in makeshift through ‘Doli’ to the Health centre in S.Kota for 9 kms has exposed the failures of the Jagan’s government.”

Where are the 108 and 104 those which had been showcased on the streets of the Vijayawada and across the State? The Narendra Modi led union government provides funds to facilitate the last house of the corner village in the country as part of Anthyodaya, but the Andhra Pradesh government is in the dip of personal advertisements of their party and leader rather than providing services for the poor and needed people. This government shall feel ashamed since raising pleasure slogans with their party aids without responsible services to the needed tribal poor people“, Dinakar added further.

These kinds of incidents are common in Visakhapatnam and Vijayanagaram areas. Mellika Chunnammi, a resident of Poimala village under Saluru Mandal in Vizianagaram district, was suffering from fever for the past few days. There are no medical facilities in and around her village. On 8th September, she was carried in the sling to the ambulance and after arduous efforts, she was finally admitted to the primary health centre at Makkuva in Vizianagaram. Over 10 such incidents were reported in the last one year.