Bhubavaneshwar sources have stated that a tribal man, along with his 12 year old daughter, has walked around 10km carrying his spouse's body on his shoulder on Wednesday as he failed to get a vehicle to transport it from a government hospital in Odisha's Kalahandi district where she has died.
It is stated that Dana Majhi's 42 year old spouse Amang Dei has died of tuberculosis on Tuesday night at the district headquarters hospital at Bhawanipatna.
Majhi has said despite his all-out efforts, he could not get any help from the hospital authorities and so he has wrapped his spouse's body in a cloth and has started walking to his village Melghara which is about 60 km from Bhawanipatna.
Meanwhile the Kalahandi district collector Brunda D has said that as they have got to know of the incident, they had spoken to the CDMO and has arranged for an ambulance, under `Mahaparayana' scheme, dead body carriers are supposed to be deployed at 37 government hospitals.
