Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, Oct 21: Smti Sandhya Das, a 56 years old patient of hypertension was admitted in GB Pant Hospital following an accident recently. She got her left arm fractured after she fell down owing to dizziness as her blood pressure rose high.
The Doctors of GB Pant Hospital have put their best efforts to treat the elderly woman, but it involves critical treatment ,which can be availed in the hospitals at mainland only, the medics declared. Accordingly, she has been referred from GB Pant Hospital to Ruby Hospital, Kolkata under Ayushman Bharat Scheme. Sadly under this scheme, as per the claim of the medical, cost of most of the expensive medical tests are not covered.
On the other hand, the elderly indigent woman became bereaved the day her husband died two years ago while she has no son to look after her in her old age; she is putting up with her sister. She is survived by and on the mercy of her three daughters who are married and who have their own families to see. Besides, her all the three sons-in-law are pvt. workers and are from a financially weaker section.
Smti Das a wretched widow and who is already crippled with high BP has been put in a grievous situation after she has been referred to mainland with her broken arm. She is now ruefully pleading with the people to generously extend her financial help so that she may proceed to the mainland and get her arm cured by the right treatment.
With the help of some collection the family has arranged a ticket for reaching Kolkata for treatment but the family can’t afford the cost of lodging, boarding and also the cost of various tests conducted by Mainland Hospitals, which are not covered under Ayushman Bharat Scheme, as it is claimed.
The old lady has appealed to all generous people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands to contribute some amount for her treatment. The amount in the shape of financial help may generously be deposited in her Bank Account No. 638502010004923 or call her family member at 9933281244 for any kind of support, she added.
