KADAKKAL: The car driven by a 40-year-old woman meets with an accident after she got panicked knowing that she was Covid positive. The car hit an electric post and then overturned. The ambulance drivers refused to take the injured woman to the hospital. She had to stand in the road for an hour.
She received the message in her phone while returning after Covid test. She got panicked, lost control of the vehicle, it hit an electric post and then overturned. The car has been completely damaged.
She escaped with minor injuries. She got out of the car on her own. 108 Ambulance was not willing to take her to the hospital. The fire force reached the spot and gave her a PPE kit and made her sit there saying that they had no provision to use fire ambulance to take the patient to the hospital. Later her relative came and took her home.