Boy Takes Father To Hospital In Pushcart, Authorities Deny 'No Ambulance' Claim

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The local authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district have denied the ‘no ambulance’ claim after a video of a boy taking his father to a hospital in a pushcart went viral.

The video surfaced on the internet on Saturday with a caption that the ailing man’s family did not get an ambulance, which evoked angry reactions from netizens.

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Video of boy pushing his father in a cart viral

In the video, the 6-year-old boy, dressed in a teal shirt and powder blue denims, was seen trying to control the movement of the cart, which he pushed around for three kilometres. The boy’s mother was seen pushing it from the opposite end.

The man, identified as Dayal Shah, was admitted to the district hospital on January 29 for a leg injury and returned some days later to his home, which is just 500 metres away.

On Friday, the man again suffered from leg pain and went to get admitted in the hospital.

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Family claims ambulance didn’t arrive

The Shah family claims that they dialled the government hospital for an ambulance but to no avail. After a wait of 20 minutes, the family decided to take the man to the hospital in a pushcart.

Authorities say ambulance wasn’t called

District Collector Arun Kumar Parmar, who ordered a probe into the incident, in a statement issued on Sunday said the claim about the absence of an ambulance was incorrect.

“We have checked call records of the 108 ambulance service and did not find any call made by the man or his family. The family has also said they took the man to the hospital (on the handcart) on their own,” the collector said.

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In a similar incident that took place in August last year, a man was compelled to rush his pregnant woman to a health centre on a pushcart in MP’s Damoh district because of the unavailabillity of an ambulance. The woman’s husband claimed that despite calling the 108 government ambulance service after his wife went into labour. He reportedly waited for two hours. 

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