Hanur: At a time when the nation is celebrating the 75th year of independence (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav), a pregnant woman in a tribal hamlet of Hanur taluk in Chamarajanagar district, who went into labour on Wednesday night, was physically carried by her family and other villagers in a contraption made out of a blanket as the village lacked cell phone connectivity and also had no transport access, which goes to explain official apathy.
The villagers of Doddane Tribal Hamlet located in the dense forest of MM Hills range in Hanur taluk carried the pregnant woman identified as Shakuntala in a blanket doli and walked for six hours on Wednesday night covering a distance of 8 kms to reach the Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Sulwadi, which was the nearest hospital.
