A video of an eight-year-old boy sitting with his younger brother’s body and waiting for an ambulance next to a drain in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena went viral on Sunday.
It has emerged that the father of the deceased, Poojaram, a tyre mechanic, was unable to pay ₹2,000 that the ambulance drivers had been demanding for shifting the body to his native village. Leaving the body in his other son’s care, he went out looking for affordable transport options.
Mr. Poojaram said he was told by the hospital authorities that they did not have a vehicle at hand, and he would have to pay for one outside.
