A 21-year-old pregnant tribal woman has died of sunstroke after walking for seven kilometres from a village to go to a primary health centre (PHC) and then return home in Maharashtra's Palghar district, health officials said on May 15.
The incident took place on Friday when Sonali Waghat, from Osar Veera village in Dahanu taluka, walked for 3.5 km under the scorching sun to reach a highway nearby from where she took an auto-rickshaw to the Tawa PHC as she was not keeping well, Palghar district civil surgeon Dr. Sanjay Bodade told PTI.
The woman, who was in the ninth month of pregnancy, was treated at the PHC and sent home. She again walked for another 3.5 km back home from the highway amid the sweltering summer heat, he said.
