16yrold accident victim dies as poor kin fail to bear expenses

AMRITSAR: A 16-year-old girl, Lovepreet Kaur, who was injured a month ago, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday, as her parents failed to bear her treatment expenses.

Lovepreet, of Manan village, 10km from here, was a student of Class 10, wrestler and a kabbadi player.

On July 2, she had gone to her relatives’ house at Rajasansi, when she was hit by a car, leaving her legs and grips fractured.

The victim was taken to IVY Hospital, on Rajasansi Road.

Deceased’s father, Sucha Singh, said that the hospital asked them to deposit money first, failing which they discharged the girl from the hospital.

They took her to Amandeep Hospital, which also did the same.

“We took her to governmentowned Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, but the doctors expressed their helplessness to treat her as they did not have proper facilities in the hospital.

Then we went to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Societyowned Sri Guru Ram Das Charitable Hospital.

They kept our daughter for five days but they did not treat her as we were unable to bear the treatment expenses,” he said.

Social activist Navtej Singh, who helped the family in taking the girl to another private hospital for treatment, said it is shameful that the governmentand SGPC-owned hospitals did not come to the fore to help the poverty-ridden family, who lost their daughter.

“Government should have provided treatment at least seeing that she was a sportsperson. As for the SGPC, it has established the hospital to serve the humanity, with cooperation of the sangat, but it showed indifferent attitude, which is shameful,” he said.