Bengaluru: Unable to find a free ambulance in an government hospital in Anekal in Bengaluru, a farmer called in a two-wheeler to carry his 3-year-old son’s body home.

Safan Rai, a 3-year-old son of Dana Manjhi, a farmer from Odisha, was hit by an unidentified vehicle on Sunday. The child was declared dead at the hospital. The man responsible for the incident is still to be caught.

Dana Manjhi, did not find a free ambulance – a service the government guarantees to the poor at the government hospital. He did not know that he was entitled to one. The unexpected death of Safan had left him distraught. The grief-stricken father said that he did not know he could ask for a free ambulance to take Safan’s body home. A migrant labourer from Assam, language was a barrier for him. And the hospital staff did not come to his aid.

When the farmer was waiting outside the hospital, he was filmed and soon the mobile footage made it to local television channels prompting police to take note of the matter. A case was filed and Rahim’s body was taken back to the hospital for a postmortem examination. After the postmortem, farmer was given a ambulance to take the body home.