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Indian authorities ordered a probe Wednesday after a video footage of a man carrying the body of his seven-month-old niece on a bicycle went viral.
In the footage, the man, identified as Brij Mohan, can be seen carrying the body of his niece, Poonam, on his shoulders as he pedalled his cycle in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district Monday after being denied an ambulance at the district hospital where she died.
"We have taken cognizance of the incident. An inquiry has also been initiated," Chief Medical Officer of Kaushambi, S.K. Upadhyay, told the media.
Meanwhile, police have also registered a case against the ambulance driver. "We have filed the first information report against the driver for refusing to ferry the deceased from the hospital to her home," a senior police official said.
The girl was admitted to the district hospital following several bouts of vomiting and loose motion, her uncle said.
This is not the first such incident of the dead being denied an ambulance.
Earlier this month, a man in the eastern state of Bihar was forced to carry his wife's body on a bike to reach his home for her last rites after being denied a mortuary van at a state-run hospital.
And in August last year, an impoverished man in the eastern state of Odisha carried his wife's body for 12 km after the hospital where she died allegedly failed to provide an ambulance to carry the body back to their village.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
