{"id":243595,"date":"2016-08-28T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T12:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=243595"},"modified":"2016-08-28T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T12:54:45","slug":"penniless-man-carries-wifes-dead-body-home-for-7-miles-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/penniless-man-carries-wifes-dead-body-home-for-7-miles-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Penniless man carries wife&#8217;s dead body home for 7 miles from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A penniless villager from the Indian state of Odisha says he\u00a0carried his wife&#8217;s body on his shoulder for almost 7 miles after he could\u00a0not get\u00a0help\u00a0from\u00a0hospital officials to transport\u00a0the corpse, Indian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Majhi used old sheets from a\u00a0hospital bed to wrap the body of his wife, Amangadei, lifted her on his shoulder\u00a0and started walking from\u00a0Bhawanipatna to his home village, Melghari,\u00a035 miles away. His teenage daughter, sobbing, walked by his side, The Indian Express reported.<\/p>\n<p>Majhi said\u00a0he asked the hospital to arrange a hearse to move the body after Amangadei died Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-PTKkvnl1hwo\" class=\"story-asset oembed-asset\">\n<div class=\"story-oembed-wrap \">\n<div class=\"js-oembed story-oembed story-oembed-youtube story-oembed-type-video\" data-oembed-type=\"video\" data-oembed-provider=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dkV06DNZlr8?feature=oembed\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI requested everyone, but no one listened,&#8221; the 42-year-old Majhi\u00a0said, according to<em>The Express<\/em>. &#8220;What option did I have other than carrying her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had walked for almost seven miles\u00a0before\u00a0a\u00a0passerby\u00a0notified local officials, who\u00a0sent an\u00a0ambulance to finish the journey. He also called a TV reporter, who filmed the ordeal and broadcast the story widely at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Brundha D., a Kalahandi district official,\u00a0claimed that Majhi did not wait for a vehicle to be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have surely sent the body in a vehicle,\u201d she told the newspaper, adding that she lined up funds for funeral assistance from state coffers and the local Red Cross fund.<\/p>\n<p>An alternate\u00a0account of the story suggests Majhi was disoriented after his wife died and didn&#8217;t know what to do. He told Odisha TV\u00a0Saturday\u00a0that he was distraught, did not speak to anyone in the hospital and left with his wife&#8217;s body until he got to a villager nearby where he had friends.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Majhi&#8217;s apparent lack of options and the widespread publicity got the attention of authorities who pledged stern action against any negligent\u00a0officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will see if there were any lapses on the part of the hospital authorities. We will definitely take action against the erring officials,\u201d Health minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak told Odisha TV\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Express<\/em>\u00a0said it was at least the second time since April that poor\u00a0families have been forced to find alternative\u00a0ways to transport\u00a0a deceased relative from a hospital.\u00a0In April, a family from Andhra Pradesh had to tow their daughter&#8217;s body in a rickshaw for her last rites, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A penniless villager from the Indian state of Odisha says he\u00a0carried his wife&#8217;s body on his shoulder for almost 7 miles after he could\u00a0not get\u00a0help\u00a0from\u00a0hospital officials to transport\u00a0the corpse, Indian media reported. Dana Majhi used old sheets from a\u00a0hospital bed to wrap the body of his wife, Amangadei, lifted her on his shoulder\u00a0and started walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":243596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Penniless man carries wife&#039;s dead body home for 7 miles from hospital - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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