BELAGAVI: A critically ill 38-year-old woman was carried by villagers on a handmade stretcher through a challenging 10 km stretch in the Western Ghats' Khanapur forests to ensure she received timely medical care. The woman, brought to a Belagavi hospital unconscious on Friday, is now stable and recovering well. A 38-year-old critically ill woman was carried by villagers on a handmade stretcher through a treacherous stretch in the Western Ghats in the Khanapur forests for about 10 km and ensured that the woman got timely treatment.
The woman who was later brought in an unconscious state to a Belagavi hospital on Friday is stable and is recovering well. A group of villagers from Amgaon, which lacks basic amenities like many other remote villages in Khanapur, trekked through the muddy and challenging terrain of the dense forest to save 38-year-old Harshada Harishchandra Ghadi. They carried her on a handmade stretcher for 10 km from Amgaon to Chikle, where she was transferred to an ambulance and taken to a hospital in Khanapur.
When her condition deteriorated at the Khanapur hospital, she was shifted to Belagavi district hospital on Saturday, where her condition has steadily improved, and she is now recuperating. The villagers initially attempted to treat her locally in Amgaon, but as her condition worsened, they resolved to save her by any means necessary. They fashioned a stretcher from wooden sticks and, despite the inclement weather of the Amgaon forest, which r is among the .