Daijiworld Media Network - Chikkamagaluru (SP)
Chikkamagaluru, Dec 9: Maggalamakki Ganesh, district president of Karnataka Rashtra Samithi party, has filed a complaint at Banakal police station in the district, accusing certain people of haphazard driving of vehicle in the guise of creating zero traffic and creating problems for the traffic and road users on the way.
He said that some people had made the people believe that a patient who was being transported from Mangaluru to Bengaluru by an ambulance, was in need of emergency surgery. Wide publicity was given for the same through social media. Even though the Shiradi Ghat road to Bengaluru was easier and smoother, the concerned took Puttur-Charmadi-Kottigehara-Mudigere Handpost and Belur route by creating zero traffic all along the way. But even after six days, the patient concerned has not been operated upon, he said.
Ganesh stated that the people concerned had made the people believe that it was a case needing emergency operation, even though there was no such emergency. He pointed out that many people were inconvenienced because of the behaviour of the people referred above.
It is said that no permission was obtained from the police department for creating zero traffic environment for the ambulance in this case. Ramesh has urged the policemen to probe the incident.
When Daijiworld contacted Kalpaja DA, director of Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, over telephone, she informed that the patient who came to the hospital in very sick condition now is been stabilised. “But the patient needs bilateral lung transplantation. The patient is the candidate for lung transplantation. The patient name will be put on the donors’ list in India. Whenever lung is available, the government will let us know. There will be hundreds of people in the donors’ list. Some may have to wait for two to three years. The patient's family did not know this. Now she is stabilised, but she needs lung transplantation,” she said.