In a shocking incident a farmer had to carry his dying wife on his shoulder for three kms and also wade through a river to take her to a Government hospital. But all his frantic efforts went in vain and she was declared dead on reaching the rural hospital.
According to the police 30 year old Pushpa Rathod, a debt ridden tenant farmer attempted suicide by consuming pesticide after her cotton crop was destroyed by the recent rains. Her husband Ram Rathod said that they had borrowed a loan of Rs 1,00,000 from bank and private moneylenders to grow the crop but his wife went into depression when the crop was destroyed by the heavy rains recently.
A resident of remote Umbri village of Adilabad district, Pushpa consumed pesticide on Tuesday to end her life. Her desperate husband made repeated calls for an ambulance to take her to hospital but could not get any help, as there was no navigable road linking the village to outside world.
Finally the husband carried Pushpa on his shoulder and walked and also waded through a river to reach the spot where a vehicle was arranged. But by the time she was taken to Government primary health centre at Narnoor she had breathed her last.
The heartrending tragedy took place just 300 kms away from the State Capital Hyderabad, one of the fastest growing and one of the most developed city in India. This has come close on the heel of another incident in neighboring Andhra Pradesh where a tribal woman had to deliver in the open forest area while she was being taken by the local people on a makeshift palanquin.
The video of the incident made by a tribal youth had gone viral on social media.