Covid in Rural India: Villagers, Health Workers in Uttarakhand Left On Their Own The vaccination drive has not reached these parts of rural India
“If someone gets sick here, we strap them to a chair and carry them to the nearest accessible road. From there we hire a taxi to reach the hospital. Overall we need to travel 15 km to get basic medical facilities. If the case is serious, the doctors have to refer the patient to Haldwani or Bareilly as they don’t have proper means” says Shyam, the gram pradhan of a small village in Uttarakhand.
“There are at least 2-3 cases of corona in every village in Uttarakhand,” says social worker Shubham Dharmsktu.
Dehradun
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Tehri
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Kumaon
Kolkata
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