Assam ambulance driver carries Covid-19 patient on bicycle

Health workers across the country continue to face enormous challenges in the battle against Covid-19. An incident from Assam’s Cachar came to light where an ambulance driver resorted to ferrying a coronavirus-infected man on a bicycle for over a kilometre as the road leading to the patient's home in Telichhara village was in a dilapidated condition and unmotorable. Badruddin, the driver of a 108 ambulance service, recounting the incident said, “I carried the patient on a bicycle for over 1 kilometre to the ambulance parked outside the village as the road leading to the Telichhara village in Cachar was unmotorable." The driver said that he requested the patient's family members to carry him to the ambulance but they refused as they were too scared to stay near the patient.