Daily wager dies due to non-availability of ambulance in Dandeli

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A 52-year-old man died due to the non-availability of an ambulance to ferry him to the taluk hospital, near Bommanahalli dam in the taluk on Sunday.

Elavarasan Arikolindu, a daily wager from Bommanahalli, complained of chest pain while returning home from Dandeli in a bus. The conductor of the bus made him alight near Bommanahalli dam.

"The patient was unconscious and we called for a '108' ambulance. But the ambulance at the taluk hospital was under repair. By the time we arranged for a private vehicle, the patient had breathed his last," social activist Himbran K M Abdullah told DH.

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