Official apathy/callousness/disdain/indifference and derision seem to be the order of the day in Navin Patnaik's Odisha despite lofty pronouncements and false ringing claims to the contrary.......
In the latest reported instance of official or then should I say criminal neglect and inhumanity a poor and impoverished tribal gent hailing from the state's backward Kalahandi district was forced to carry his beloved wife's mortal remains on his shoulders for a good 5 kilometres or so as he was denied access to both a mortuary van as well as ambulance by the concerned district government hospital authorities........
This deeply anguishing and agonising incident took place late on Tuesday afternoon when the 42 year old Amang Dei who was being treated fro chronic tuberculosis at the state government run Bhawanipatna District Headquarters Hospital breathed her last after a valiant struggle to survive and beat the seemingly insurmountable odds for more than 3 months or so.......
Momentarily setting aside his grief and irreplaceable loss Dei's husband 44 year old Dana Manjhi literally pleaded and beseeched the concerned hospital authorities to provide him with a vehicle in which he could transport the corpse of his soulmate to his native village which was located a little over 60 kms away from the said hospital as he did not have the wherewithal and resources to hire a private vehicle for the same purpose.......
His piteous pleadings/entreaties fell on deaf ears as the hospital authorities resolutely and outrightly refused to provide him with a vehicle for the expressed purpose citing an acute shortage of official vehicles and such other inanities.......
Left with no other recourse Manjhi bundled up his wife's lifeless/senseless body in a shroud and desultorily started trudging his way back towards his native (Melghara village) in Rampur Block with his 12 year old daughter keeping him company on the most painful and arduous journey of his life......
Miracles or wonders do have this uncanny ability of happening/occurring when you least expect them to and a similar event occurred in Dana's case when a group of reporters belonging to a local news channel chanced upon him and queried him about his haranguing ordeal.......
These good samaritans/well intentioned folks used their official clout and promptly rang up the district collector who graciously intervened and immediately despatched an official vehicle in which the three members of the Manjhi family undertook the rest of their eventful journey........
Fearing the resultant backlash and dire consequences as the incident was widely reported on various local news channels and the prominent Odisha Television News Channel; the said district collector issued an official apology to the grieving and disconsolate Dana Manjhi on Wednesday morning as well as instituted a high level official enquiry to identify the offending hospital authorities and initiate suitable punitive action against the culprits.......
In the latest reported instance of official or then should I say criminal neglect and inhumanity a poor and impoverished tribal gent hailing from the state's backward Kalahandi district was forced to carry his beloved wife's mortal remains on his shoulders for a good 5 kilometres or so as he was denied access to both a mortuary van as well as ambulance by the concerned district government hospital authorities........
This deeply anguishing and agonising incident took place late on Tuesday afternoon when the 42 year old Amang Dei who was being treated fro chronic tuberculosis at the state government run Bhawanipatna District Headquarters Hospital breathed her last after a valiant struggle to survive and beat the seemingly insurmountable odds for more than 3 months or so.......
Momentarily setting aside his grief and irreplaceable loss Dei's husband 44 year old Dana Manjhi literally pleaded and beseeched the concerned hospital authorities to provide him with a vehicle in which he could transport the corpse of his soulmate to his native village which was located a little over 60 kms away from the said hospital as he did not have the wherewithal and resources to hire a private vehicle for the same purpose.......
His piteous pleadings/entreaties fell on deaf ears as the hospital authorities resolutely and outrightly refused to provide him with a vehicle for the expressed purpose citing an acute shortage of official vehicles and such other inanities.......
Left with no other recourse Manjhi bundled up his wife's lifeless/senseless body in a shroud and desultorily started trudging his way back towards his native (Melghara village) in Rampur Block with his 12 year old daughter keeping him company on the most painful and arduous journey of his life......
Miracles or wonders do have this uncanny ability of happening/occurring when you least expect them to and a similar event occurred in Dana's case when a group of reporters belonging to a local news channel chanced upon him and queried him about his haranguing ordeal.......
These good samaritans/well intentioned folks used their official clout and promptly rang up the district collector who graciously intervened and immediately despatched an official vehicle in which the three members of the Manjhi family undertook the rest of their eventful journey........
Fearing the resultant backlash and dire consequences as the incident was widely reported on various local news channels and the prominent Odisha Television News Channel; the said district collector issued an official apology to the grieving and disconsolate Dana Manjhi on Wednesday morning as well as instituted a high level official enquiry to identify the offending hospital authorities and initiate suitable punitive action against the culprits.......
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