Sundargarh: A poor widow woman was forced to carry her son’s body on a trolley rickshaw from a hospital to her village in this district, reports said.
Though the incident had occurred July 29, it came to fore only when a video clip went viral on social media Sunday.
According to reports, Mira Rohidas from Lohradhipa under Sundargarh municipal area admitted her son Tikeswar to Sundargarh district hospital due to illness July 23.
While undergoing treatment, he died at 2 am July 29.
She requested an ambulance driver to take her son’s body to her village who demanded Rs 300 for the service.
After she had been denied free hearse under the Mahaprayan service, the woman took her son’s body on a trolley rickshaw to her village, allegedly without informing the hospital authorities.
Notably, the state government had launched the Mahaprayan scheme after an incident from Kalahandi district where Dana Majhi, a tribal man, walked for 12 km carrying his wife’s body on his shoulder, hit headlines in national and international media in 2016.
The scheme is meant to provide transportation facilities from hospital to the village of the deceased.