New Delhi, Jun 28 (LAB) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) India on June 24, issued notices to the Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Chhattisgarh and the District Collector, Sukma after taking suo-motu cognizance of a media report that a tribal couple, who lost their child after the delivery, was left stranded at a sub-health centre in Kankerlanka till past midnight without getting an ambulance to drop them back home.
Issuing the notices, the Commission observed that the contents of the media report, if true, amount to a violation of human rights, and accordingly, has asked the officers to submit a report on the matter within four weeks.
According to the media report carried out on June, 22, 2022, the woman after the delivery of her baby boy at the Kankerlanka health centre was referred to the Sukma district hospital on June 20, 2022. But the child died on the way when he was being taken with the parents in an ambulance to the district hospital. Seeing this, the ambulance driver turn around and dropped the couple back at the sub-health centre. The couple was told that another ambulance will come to take them back to the village but none came until past midnight when a local journalist drove them down to their village.
Reportedly, the Health Department officials have taken cognizance of the matter and the District Collector has assured an investigation into the matter./LAB/SNG