Poor girl dies on way to hospital as ambulance driver denied to lift the patient without fuel Charges.

Saahil Suhail,

Anantnag, Feb, 2: Due to the negligence of Ambulance Driver at District Hospital Anatnag, 16 year old girl lost her life, family members staged protest, ambulance driver put behind bars by Anantnag police.

The death of a girl due to the alleged negligence of an ambulance driver at Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beigh Hospital, Anantnag triggered protests by her family members and attendants today. Following the
protests, Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag ordered enquiry into matter.

A 16 year old girl, Nazima D/o Farooq Ahmad Rather of Gopalpora
Anantnag was consumed poison last evening and was taken to Sub Distict Hospital Achabal later referred to district hospital Anantnag at around 8 pm. On reaching hospital the doctors washed her stomach and referred her to Srinagar hospital but the driver of the ambulance caused delay inproviding ambulance to the family of the girl.

   "The driver told us that there was no fuel in the ambulance and demanded 850 rupees from us. We told him that we had no money but he did not listen. Then we started collecting money from the attendants of the patients in hospital yards to be paid to the driver. By the time we collected the amount the condition of the patient had worsened and finally died on way to Srinagar hospital near Pampore," the family members told mediapersons. After the death of the girl on way her family decided to move
back and kept her dead body in Anantnag hospital for the entire night. This morning they lodged strong protests and supported by the other attendants tried to lock the main gate of the hospital. However they were pacified after the authorities assured them of looking into the matter.  

 Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Syed Kifayat Hussain Rizvi, said that he ordered inquiry into the matter and will take action against all those who will be indicted by the
enquiry team. " Though the family members of the victim did not lodge any complaint with me but on my own i ordered enquiry into the matter and the enquiry team headed by Tehsildar wil submit the report tomorrow. Any body found guilty will be taken to task,”
However he said that during the preliminary investigations only the
ambulance driver has been found negligent.

When contact Tehsildar Anatnag, Gulam Rasool Bhat, who is heading the enquiry team said that during the preliminary investigation we have found that the ambulance driver as wasted about 40 valuable  minutes of the patient and hence police has timely arrested him, identified as Mohd Abas .

“Yes he has (Ambulance Driver) told the family he has no fuel in the ambulance and forced them to collect 850 rupees from the patients that took about 40 minutes and with this delay the young girl lost her life.” Tehsildar Said addind that we are going to submit final report within two days in this regard