Officials bring woman to hosp with ITBP help as rain damages road
RUDRAPUR: A 36-year-old woman of an interior village in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district suffered the pain of her injuries for a week because her relatives could not take her to a medical facility as the unpaved way out of the village had been washed away in heavy rains that lashed the state last month.
On getting information, the district administration took her to hospital with the help of Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) and fire brigade personnel, officials said.
“The woman is an anganwadi worker in her village and now-a-days these workers are assigned duty at booths for updating voter lists. When contacted, her family narrated her ordeal. We reached her village with ITBP and fire brigade personnel on Tuesday. We brought her on a stretcher and admitted her to the district hospital in Champawat,” said Jyoti Napalchyal, tehsildar, Champawat.
Parvati Devi, 36, belongs to Bagedi village, 26 km from Champawat district headquarters. The washed away unpaved way was the only link of the village the nearest road, the tehsildar said.
“When she (Parvati Devi) failed to reach her booth as per the instruction, local administration contacted her over phone to know the reason.
Her husband Pitamber Joshi narrated her plight and requested for help,” Napalchyal said.
Parvati had sustained injuries after she fell down in her agricultural field and was bedridden. Her relatives were providing her herbal treatment, but her condition did not improve. Her relatives and villagers wanted to take her to hospital but found themselves helpless because the unpaved way was damaged in rains.
Parvati’s husband said, “The villagers have to walk six km on foot to reach the road. Since the kacha way had been washed away in incessant rains, villagers wanted to take my wife in a palanquin but there was fear among them of falling into a gorge, so she couldn’t be taken. She kept writhing in pain at home.”
The tehsildar said, “On learning her plight, higher authorities were informed and, on their instructions, we moved to her village with ITBP and fire brigade personnel. We brought her on a stretcher and admitted her to the district hospital. It was quite difficult and risky to bring her but somehow ITBP and fire brigade personnel brought her.”
We moved to her village with ITBP and fire brigade personnel and brought her on a stretcher to the district hospital. JYOTI NAPALCHYAL, Official