Click to play videoAurangabad (Bihar): For the people of a village in Bihar's Aurangabad district the bullock cart is the only means to get to a hospital in the city.
Rajendra, who has been running high temperature, is put in Ram Sundar Singh's bullock cart to be taken to the hospital.
“Will an aeroplane come here? In villages the only options are bullock carts or cots,” says Rajendra.
Rajendra’s relative, Santosh Singh adds, “I have hired a bullock cart to take him to the hospital.”
The ambulances lined up outside hospitals is the public face of the health services in the state where people still walk miles and swim across rivers to reach the world outside.
Clock seems to have stopped in some parts of the state where people still walk miles, swim across rivers to reach the world outside and are still struggling for the basic health amenities.
But not everyone is complaining. There are some who benefit from this state of affairs
“I earn Rs 200-300 per patient,” says Ram Sundar Singh.
So while successive governments have neglected the villages for many years now, there have also not been too many voices of protest.
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