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Teacher dies in hospital after being carried in hand cart through broken roads in Assam's Majuli

Teacher dies in hospital after being carried in hand cart through broken roads in Assam's Majuli

| @indiablooms | 18 Aug 2018, 10:53 am

Guwahati, Aug 18 (IBNS)  : The miserable condition of road connectivity and health care facilities in Assam’s river island district Majuli was once again exposed when a teacher died due to lack of poor road connectivity and medical treatment.

According to the reports, Sushil Payeng,  a teacher of a junior college hailing from Patharichuk area along Lakhimpur-Majuli district border  fell sick on Friday. The members of his family were forced to carry him in a hand-cart to a government- run hospital in Majuli district because of the dilapidated condition of roads. Majuli is the assembly constituency represented by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

Pitambar Deva Goswami civil hospital at Gormur, where Payeng was taken, is Majuli's only healthcare centre. The teacher's relatives had to trudge through several kilometres of road and cross two rivers. Due to the worst condition of roads, no ambulance could make it to the area, where the teacher is from.

The teacher he died because of lack of medical treatment and unavailability of doctors.

A relative of the teacher said, "the road connectivity in our area is the  worst. We carried the patients to hospital by using a  hand-cart. But no doctor was available in the hospital to see the patients."

Recently, a pregnant woman was carried by her  family members in a hand-cart to a government- run hospital in the world’s biggest river island district.

Earlier in April, 2017, a man was  forced to carry the body of his brother on bicycle due to absence of ambulance.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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