Amit dies due to non availability of road and medical negligence in Garhwal Uttarakhand

The lack of basic health facilities, non availability of connecting roads, lack of adequate medical health centres and hospitals in some villages, negligence of the doctors and specialists and non availability of adequate treatment is costing patients with critical illnesses their precious lives in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand that came into separate existence 24 years ago despite claiming to have made lot of progress in different sectors like health , education and employment, has actually proved to be non functional with massive migration to plains making villages empty of people with more than about three thousand villages becoming ghost villages and primary and intermediate schools in hundreds of villages closed due to non availability of students.

There have been several instances of pregnant women giving birth on roads in view of non availability of ambulances on time and hospitals being far off with no adequate facilities.

Just a day before a young man has to give up his precious life after he was turned away from different hospitals when he was critically ill and needed prompt treatment.

According to a latest news, the failure of the prevailing system in health sector has taken the precious life of a young man in Garhwal, Uttarakhand exposing the existing ills in the health sector of the Himalayan state.

According to a social media post of Dinesh Patwal : A resident of Devaldhar village Amit’s health suddenly deteriorated. Due to the lack of road in the village, he was carried on shoulder to Dhumakot hospital. When he took him to Dhumakot hospital, he found that there was no doctor there. After that, he took him to Nainidanda hospital. There also the doctor referred him directly to Ramnagar without giving any medical treatment. Even in Ramnagar, the doctor referred him to Haldwani. What is shocking is that the Sushila Tiwari Hospital of Haldwani also directly said that we do not have a doctor, take him to Delhi and hence the referral system wasted so much of our precious time that Amit died on the way. Who is responsible for this death due to the negligence of the doctors referring him from one hospital to another asked Petwal.

Amit Rawat was just 24 years old and belonged to Nainidanada, Pauri Garhwal’s Dwaldhar village.