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Healthcare Crisis: Woman Miscarries, Carried On Cot For Four Km In Chhattisgarh's Bastar

The woman had bled profusely and had to be transfused four units of blood at Dimarapal hospital. She is stable now, said doctors.

Jagdalpur : Healthcare remains a far cry for Naxal-affected villages of Bastar. Patients being carried on cots to hospitals for treatment is a common occurrence in the region.

One such incident was reported from Gudiapadar village in Jagdalpur where a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage and was taken on a cot for four kilometres to an ambulance in pitch dark. The woman was admitted to Dimarapal hospital in a critical condition. However, she is out of danger now, said doctors.

Locals said, Lakshmi Markam miscarried on the night of October 1

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