Bhubaneswar, Oct 16: Taking action on a case where an ambulance refused to carry a child’s dead body, the ambulance driver and call center employee have been suspended by the State government.
After the instruction from Shalini Pandit, Director of National Health Mission (NHM), the action against the duo was taken.
It may be noted that, an ambulance driver refused to carry the body of a boy named Rudra Nayak of Tubuka village under Krushnachandrapur block of Puri district on Friday night.
As per reports, Rudra died on Friday night in the ambulance while he was on his way to Chhatrapur hospital in an ambulance after his condition became critical.
The ambulance driver refused to take the body back to the village even after the father of the deceased requested him and left the spot leaving them midway.
Left with no choice, covering a distance of 20-25 km, Rudra’s father carried the body back to his house in the village. Protesting the incident, irate villagers blocked the road at Chari Chaka on Saturday.
