Condition of health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, helpless husband and helpless system! Husband seen carrying wife’s dead body after tying a sheet in bamboo
The video of a woman’s body being taken from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh is going viral on social media. This video is raising questions on the social fabric. Ambulance facility is available from the hospital to take dead bodies to home, but if a person from a poor family dies at home and there are no means for carrying the dead body, then what should the family do? The way the husband and father carry the dead body of the woman on their shoulders and carry it on the road, the video shows the dark truth of the society. This video is heartbreaking. The woman died due to illness on Friday.
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The matter is of Neebi village of Jhunsi, Prayagraj. After the death of the laborer’s wife, there was no money to decorate the bier. Nor four shoulders. In such a situation, the elderly father and husband tied the dead body of the woman in a bundle for the last rites. Hanged the bundle on the support of a bamboo. Went towards the cremation ground. When people saw the dead body of a woman being carried away tied in a bundle, they were shocked. When both of them were seen tired and carrying the bundle, people asked the reason for carrying such a dead body. When both of them told the whole matter, everyone was shocked.
Passersby helped
Police and passers-by helped the husband and father of a woman carrying her body after tying it in a bamboo cloth at Jhunsi across Ganga in Prayagraj. Jhunsi police station in-charge Upendra Pratap Singh said that people of Musahar caste in Neebi village earn their living by selling leaves. Nakhru’s wife Anita (26), from the same community, was ill for a long time. He died on Friday. He told that the family of the deceased did not have money to transport the body by vehicle. Therefore, they neither called any ambulance nor any vehicle carrying the dead body.
Since the ghat was close, husband Nakhru and father manager were carrying the dead body by tying a sheet in bamboo. When the passers-by saw this, they informed the police. Singh said that on this information Chhatnag outpost in-charge Naveen Singh interrogated him. The body was taken to the crematorium with the help of an e-rickshaw. Passers-by collected money for the cremation and gave it to the relatives of the deceased. After this the cremation process could be completed.
