Delays due to rain take life of 11-year-old
The Hindu
Parents forced to carry sick child through high water, in vain
A swollen stream which cut off contacts with outside world for a small hamlet in Tandur mandal of Vikarabad district cost the life of a 11-year-old girl suffering from fever as her treatment was delayed by several hours. With no other road communication left for the habitation, the girl's father Harijan Balappa and his wife Amrutamma carried Harika on their shoulders by turns walking three kilometers over a railway track to reach a motorable road where they hired an autorickshaw up to the government hospital at Tandur on Friday evening. The doctors at the hospital advised Amrutamma who was left alone as her husband had returned for work to rush the girl to the government owned Niloufer Children's Hospital in Hyderabad. Balappa told The Hindu that Amrutamma with the help of her brothers at Tandur pooled money to hire an ambulance but to their shock the Tandur-Hyderabad highway was breached at two places en route. The driver took the vehicle on a different route via Parigi which took 15 kms more to reach Hyderabad late in the night.More Related News