<p class="bodytext">The staff of a mobile medical unit reportedly humiliated the caretakers of endosulfan victims in Kumbra village of Puttur taluk on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources told <span class="italic">DH</span> that the staff were greeted with hostility as a 15-year-old bed-ridden endosulfan victim Mohammed Anees passed away barely a week ago. Although the house is located barely two kilometres away from Thingalady primary health centre, no staff member from the mobile unit had visited the patient.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Chenda nodalikke bandadda? (Have you come to mock our situation?)” Anees’ parents asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In another household, Radha Ganesh demanded an explanation on why the staff members had never visited her house for the past two years although her 20-year-old daughter Akshatha had been identified as a bed-ridden endosulfan victim.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">‘Give in writing’</p>.<p class="bodytext">The staff members reportedly responded by humiliating the caretakers and seeking in writing from them that they did not want the services of the mobile medical unit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">RTI activist Sanjeeva Kabaka said that the staff should not have been arrogant. The caretakers needed some convincing, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Incidentally, Anees passed away with his request for water bed never being fulfilled by the Health department. Radha’s request for a water bed too had received no response from the department.</p>
<p class="bodytext">The staff of a mobile medical unit reportedly humiliated the caretakers of endosulfan victims in Kumbra village of Puttur taluk on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources told <span class="italic">DH</span> that the staff were greeted with hostility as a 15-year-old bed-ridden endosulfan victim Mohammed Anees passed away barely a week ago. Although the house is located barely two kilometres away from Thingalady primary health centre, no staff member from the mobile unit had visited the patient.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Chenda nodalikke bandadda? (Have you come to mock our situation?)” Anees’ parents asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In another household, Radha Ganesh demanded an explanation on why the staff members had never visited her house for the past two years although her 20-year-old daughter Akshatha had been identified as a bed-ridden endosulfan victim.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">‘Give in writing’</p>.<p class="bodytext">The staff members reportedly responded by humiliating the caretakers and seeking in writing from them that they did not want the services of the mobile medical unit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">RTI activist Sanjeeva Kabaka said that the staff should not have been arrogant. The caretakers needed some convincing, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Incidentally, Anees passed away with his request for water bed never being fulfilled by the Health department. Radha’s request for a water bed too had received no response from the department.</p>