One wrong step could lead to fatal accidents, villagers said. People carrying patient on shoulders are required to take extra precautions while walking on narrow trails with a deep gorge on one side. Sometimes it takes almost a day to reach the nearest road. The world is progressing fast, but our lives haven't changed for decades." Patients keep screaming out of pain, but there is no shortcut to reach the hospital. "We carry our ration and other goods on the shoulder. His brother Dabe Ram said whenever a person in critical medical emergency is required to shift to hospital, it becomes a mission for all villagers to carry the patient on their shoulders. Another patient Leeldhar, a resident of Pashi village in Raila panchayat, was brought to the civil hospital at Sainj on makeshift palanquin for nearly four kilometres. The politicians should feel our pain that we had experienced for decades," Nok Singh, a resident of Majhan village of Gadaparli panchayat. The government promises a road, but does nothing. The path is dangerous and covered with snow at places. With villagers' help, we could bring her till the road at Niharni village from Majhan on a cot. "My wife Durga Devi was suffering from severe stomachache on Tuesday.
As ambulances can't reach these people in the absence of road, villagers and relatives are the only hope for patients, they added.
Residents have been falling sick because of intense cold due to heavy snowfall in the villages located at a high-altitude area, villagers said. In the absence of roads, residents of dozens of villages in Kullu cover a distance of 5 to 15km on the inhospitable terrains in order to carry patients on palanquins made of chair or cot. MANALI: Forced to bring patients on makeshift palanquins to the hospital after walking for hours on dangerous hilly terrains, thousands of residents of Gadaparli, Raila, Nohanda and other panchayats of Kullu are waiting for their "achhe din", when they will also have proper road connectivity to their areas.
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