Kolkata: A person on Sunday claimed that he travelled in a public bus with the physique of his five-month-old baby in a bag for 200 kilometres within the northern a part of West Bengal, as he didn’t have Rs 8,000 as demanded by an ambulance driver for taking him house in Kaliaganj from Siliguri. Leader of Opposition in West Bengal meeting Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP questioned the efficacy of the Trinamool Congress authorities’s ‘Swasthya Sathi’ medical insurance scheme, whereas the TMC accused the saffron camp of indulging in politics over the unlucky loss of life of a kid.
Ashim Debsharma, the daddy, mentioned “My five-month-old son died last night after treatment at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri for six days, during which I spent Rs 16,000.” “I didn’t have cash to pay Rs 8,000 demanded by an ambulance driver there for transporting my baby to Kaliaganj,” he instructed reporters.
Debsharma claimed that he put the physique in a bag and travelled by bus to Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, round 200 km from Siliguri in Darjeeling district, with out letting anybody know, fearing that he can be deboarded if the co-passengers of employees turned conscious of it. He claimed that an ambulance driver underneath the 102 scheme instructed him that the power was free for sufferers, however not for transporting corpses.
Tweeting the matter with movies of the person talking to the media, Adhikari wrote: “Let’s not get into technicalities, but is this what Swasthya Sathi has achieved? This is unfortunately the true portrayal of the ‘Egiye Bangla’ (advanced Bengal) model.” TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen accused the BJP of making an attempt to “play dirty politics” with the unlucky loss of life of a kid.
This is Ashim Debsharma; father of a 5 month previous toddler who died in a Medical College in Siliguri.
He was being charged Rs. 8000/- to move the useless physique of his baby. Unfortunately after spending Rs. 16,000/- prior to now few days in the course of the therapy, he could not pay the… pic.twitter.com/G3migdQww8
— Suvendu Adhikari • শুভেন্দু অধিকারী (@SuvenduWB) May 14, 2023
An identical incident occurred in January this 12 months in Jalpaiguri district, additionally within the northern a part of the state. Unable to pay the excessive quantity demanded by ambulance operators, a person, carrying his mom’s physique on his shoulder, began strolling from a authorities hospital in the direction of house, round 40 kilometres away. However, after a while, a social service organisation offered him with a car which took them house freed from value.
