Pregnant woman carried for six kilometre after ambulance service failed

A pregnant woman had to be carried in a makeshift stretcher from a village in Andhra Pradesh for at least six kilometre after ambulance service failed to reach due to no road connectivity, reported.

The incident happened in Anuku village of Visakhapatnam, where a few men and women were seen carrying the pregnant woman in a makeshift cloth stretcher.

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The villagers carried the pregnant woman with the help of bed sheets tied to a bamboo stick after the 108 ambulance service could not commute to the village owing to lack of road connection.

In Palghat’s Attappadi village, the pregnant woman had to be carried for 7 km as the ambulance could not reach the spot due to non-availability of roads.

A pregnant woman was carried for 6 km with the help of bed sheets and bamboo sticks by residents of Anuku village in #Visakhapatnam, after 108 ambulance service couldn’t reach her village due to lack of proper road connectivity #AdhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/pjhOENSzIS

— ANI (@ANI) June 9, 2018

#Kerala: A pregnant tribal woman carried to hospital by her family members in Palghat’s Attappadi, due to unavailability of an ambulance. pic.twitter.com/NSrdzSC7QV

— ANI (@ANI) June 7, 2018