Ailing man dies due to traffic restrictions for I-Day dress rehearsals
14 Aug 2016 5:35 AM IST
The deceased, Kailash Chandra Maurya, a retired guest house manager, lived with his family in Gandhi Nagar area of East Delhi. He suffered a heart attack at around 9.30 am on Saturday. “We were taking him to Irwin Hospital in an auto which was stopped near the turn towards Rajghat, after descending the Gandhi Nagar flyover. Afterwards, the auto reached ITO but there too restrictions were in place and finally I could take my father to hospital following a long circuitous route, but doctors declared him dead,” said Bhupendra, the deceased’s son.
“The travel time between our house and the hospital was hardly half an hour which was stretched to nearly 1.45 hours,” he said. “It’s a sad and unfortunate incident. But the restrictions on Independence Day and full dress rehearsal were well publicised including restrictions on Geeta Colony to Shanti Van stretch. It might be that the medical emergency was not known to the personnel on duty because an ambulance was allowed to pass on the same stretch,” said Sandip Goel, Special CP (Traffic).
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