Raipur, July 8: In another incident of medical apathy reported in Chhattisgarh, a pregnant lady was carried to the hospital in a┬аmakeshift basket by several health care workers as the ambulance could not reach the village. According to a tweet by ANI, the incident took place on Tuesday. Reports inform that the health care workers in Kondagaon's Mohanbeda village carried a pregnant woman in the basket to hospital for delivery as the ambulance could not reach her village due to absence of road.

In the wake of the incident,┬аTR Kanwar, Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) Kondagaon informed that the ambulance couldn't reach the village as it was a remote area and vehicles can't reach there due to┬аunavailability of road. Kanwar further said that the delivery was done at the district hospital.┬а"They had called up 102 Ambulance but it could not reach there. It is a remote area. Vehicles can't reach there due to unavailability of road. Delivery was done at district hospital. The mother and the child are safe", Kanwar said.┬аPregnant Woman in Labour Denied Treatment at Health Centre in Agra For Not Wearing Gloves, Baby Dies.

Watch: Healthcare workers carry pregnant woman on a makeshift basket

Several such incidences raising concerns over the healthcare system have surfaced from various states. In the last month, a similar incident was reported from Noida in Uttar Pradesh where a┬аeight-month pregnant woman died in an ambulance after a 13-hour hospital hunt. The victim's family claimed that they failed to find her a bed as over half-a-dozen facilities denied her treatment. They┬аknocked the doors of eight hospitals, including government ones, before she died in the ambulance outside a facility in Greater Noida.

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