Malkangiri:A naib sarpanch played a good Samaritan by carrying a pregnant woman on sling to a hospital for delivery in this district while in a separate incident the jawans of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) ferried a pregnant woman to hospital for delivery in Chhattisgarh as ambulances failed to reach their respective homes due to bad road conditions, a report said Saturday.
In the first incident, the woman was identified as Parbati Khil, wife of Rajendra Khil at Dutelguda village under Korukonda block in this district. Parbati experienced labour pain following which her husband informed ASHA Sita Hantal and requested her to call a 102 ambulance to ferry her to the hospital.
The ambulance came but had to stop about three km from the village due to bad road conditions. On being informed, naib sarpanch Bhisma Khil advised Rajendra and his family not to waste time and prepare a sling and carry Parbati to the hospital.
He himself carried the sling on his shoulder in the slush and mud covered road for over three km till the ambulance. Later, Parbati boarded the ambulance and was rushed to the hospital where the doctors helped her deliver a baby girl
In the second incident, the ITBP jawans carried a pregnant woman on a handmade stretcher for over 7 km on shoulder braving Maoists in the absence of any other mode of transport in Kondagaon district in the neighbouring Chhattisgarh.
The incident occurred Friday morning when a company of 41 Battalion ITBP was conducting combing operation in the forests along Odisha-Chhattisgarh border.
After receiving information about the pregnant woman in labour pain, the jawans carried the woman 7 km on a handmade stretcher to the ITBP camp braving possible landmines planted by the Red rebels where she delivered a baby.The twin incidents have drawn wide-spread appreciation from the local residents.
PNN