A Congress MLA on Tuesday shared a video taken in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. In the video, a bulldozer can be seen carrying a person, who the MLA claims is a patient. Ravi Joshi, the MLA from Khargone Constituency, Madhya Pradesh, termed the situation a "horrific picture" of "Jungle Raj" of "Shivraj Sarkar". Joshi said that the video was filmed in Katni, where the patient had to be taken to the hospital on a bulldozer because the person did not get an ambulance.
The patient is a man who was injured in a road accident, NDTV reports. The chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, a BJP-ruled state, is Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
According to the NDTV report, the locals said they had informed the authorities after the man was injured, and waited for an ambulance for more than half-an-hour. Since the man was losing too much blood, the locals decided to carry him to the hospital on a bulldozer.
The injured man, Mahesh Burman, is a resident of Gairtalai, a village in Madhya Pradesh. He was injured following a collision of his bike with another two-wheeler.
According to the report, a person Pushpendra Vishwakarma volunteered to take Burman to the hospital because an ambulance had failed to arrive even after 30 minutes. Vishwakarma drove the bulldozer, and said that the accident took place outside his shop.
One of Burman's legs has been fractured. He was referred to the district hospital after receiving first aid, the report said.
The chief minister of Madhya Pradesh announced in April 2022 that the number of Advanced Life Support Vehicles was increased from 75 to 167, while the number of Basic Life Support Ambulances was increased from 531 to 835.
Despite the government's claim that the number of ambulances has increased, the problem of accessing these vehicles persists.