<p>Gadchiroli: Family members carried an injured tribal man on a cot for about 14 kilometres, crossing a swollen stream by boat, to reach the nearest hospital in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, an official said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Mallu Majji (67) of Bhatpar village in Bhamragadh tehsil, about 1,000 km from Mumbai, suffered injuries while working on his farm on Thursday. His son, Pusu Majji, and a few others turned a cot into a makeshift stretcher and set out for the hospital, the health official said.</p>.<p>The rural hospital at Bhamragadh in the district, bordering Chhattisgarh, is about 14 km from the village. Residents of Bhatpar have to cross a stream, which doesn’t have a bridge, to access the medical facility, he said.</p>.Over 2,000 vacancies in this Tamil Nadu varsity filled by 'phantom' professors: Report.<p>Mallu’s family members carried the 'stretcher' on their shoulders to one side of the stream, used a thin, long wooden boat to cross it and continued their journey on foot to the hospital, he said.</p>.<p>After initial treatment, the patient’s kin got him discharged “against medical advice” and carried him back on the cot to their village, he added.</p>
<p>Gadchiroli: Family members carried an injured tribal man on a cot for about 14 kilometres, crossing a swollen stream by boat, to reach the nearest hospital in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, an official said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Mallu Majji (67) of Bhatpar village in Bhamragadh tehsil, about 1,000 km from Mumbai, suffered injuries while working on his farm on Thursday. His son, Pusu Majji, and a few others turned a cot into a makeshift stretcher and set out for the hospital, the health official said.</p>.<p>The rural hospital at Bhamragadh in the district, bordering Chhattisgarh, is about 14 km from the village. Residents of Bhatpar have to cross a stream, which doesn’t have a bridge, to access the medical facility, he said.</p>.Over 2,000 vacancies in this Tamil Nadu varsity filled by 'phantom' professors: Report.<p>Mallu’s family members carried the 'stretcher' on their shoulders to one side of the stream, used a thin, long wooden boat to cross it and continued their journey on foot to the hospital, he said.</p>.<p>After initial treatment, the patient’s kin got him discharged “against medical advice” and carried him back on the cot to their village, he added.</p>