Jashpur. Even after 75 years of independence, there are some villages in Jashpur district where ambulances are not able to reach due to lack of roads. People are still seen travelling long distances by using Kaanvad and Palki to reach the main road. The latest case has come from Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai’s home district Jashpur, where in Churilkona of Gram Panchayat Marangi, a seriously ill elderly patient was brought to the main road in a palanquin to take him to the hospital.
Due to lack of road facilities in this village, people still take the help of Kaanvad and Palki to take pregnant women or other patients to the main road. The Chhattisgarh government may make lakhs of claims of development in the tribal dominated area of Jashpur, but the ground reality tells something else. The villagers of this area are still yearning for basic facilities in their villages. There is neither health facility nor road in these villages. This is the reason that even today the life of tribals in the inner rural areas of Jashpur depends on a palanquin.
For the past many years, in Churilkona of Gram Panchayat Marangi, the villagers have been carrying sick patients and pregnant women to the health centers and hospitals on palanquins. During this, many patients have lost their lives due to not reaching the hospital on time. The villagers say that despite the demand for a long time, a road has not been built in their village. Due to this, they have not seen an ambulance in their village till date. 
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