Madhya Pradesh: Parents carry 4-year-old daughter with saline drip on bike for 20km, child dies later

The parents of a four-year-old girl rode her on a bike for over 20 km with the mother holding the saline drip throughout the journey.

Unable to find an ambulance, the parents had to sick daughter from a community health centre to a children's hospital in Ratlam on a bike.

Unfortunately for the parents, the girl child died at the children's hospital even as doctors claimed that she could have been saved had they reached the hospital on time.

The incident occurred in village Nanleta in district Ratlam where the four-year-old daughter of Ghanshayam Nath and Jina Bai reported high fever on Monday evening. The parents took the toddler to a nearby community health centre in Sailana from where doctors referred her to the children's hospital in Ratlam.