If the state’s most prestigious, multi-crore medical institution cannot provide a basic ambulance, the government’s claims of healthcare reform are nothing but empty, taxpayer-funded promises.
RAIPUR: In a chilling testament to the absolute failure of the state’s healthcare infrastructure, a deeply disturbing video has emerged from Raipur, Chhattisgarh, shattering the government’s tall claims of providing accessible medical care. The Roots Alert team has officially confirmed that this horrific display of medical apathy occurred at none other than AIIMS Raipur—an institution globally recognized as the absolute pinnacle of public healthcare in the country. The footage, which has sparked massive outrage, exposes a system completely devoid of basic human empathy, showing a helpless, lone woman forced to transport a male patient in the back of a commercial pickup truck after being callously denied an ambulance by hospital authorities.
The video captures the appalling arrogance and sheer apathy of the AIIMS hospital staff, who can be heard blatantly refusing basic medical transport to a vulnerable citizen. Their callous dismissal—stating, “Aap kahi ke bhi raho yaha ka ambulance nahi jata” (No matter where you are from, our ambulance doesn’t go there)—is not just an insult to the desperate family, but a glaring indictment of a government machinery that has completely abandoned its citizens. To hear such deeply insensitive words echoing from the halls of a multi-crore, premier institution is an unforgivable betrayal of the public trust. It paints a devastating picture of administrative paralysis, where a single woman is left to fend for herself, begging for basic dignity and risking a patient’s life in a cargo vehicle right in the state’s capital.
That such blatant negligence is happening at an All India Institute of Medical Sciences shatters the myth of “world-class” healthcare often peddled in taxpayer-funded government advertisements. While policymakers remain safely tucked away in their air-conditioned offices boasting about the “right to health,” ordinary citizens are paying the price for this gross negligence with their lives and dignity. If the state’s most prestigious and heavily funded medical institution lacks the basic humanity and operational infrastructure to provide an ambulance to a critical patient, it is a catastrophic failure of leadership and accountability at the highest levels of the state government.
This horrifying incident cannot be brushed off as an isolated administrative lapse; it is a glaring symptom of a completely rotting public health system. The RootsAlert team refuses to let this egregious violation of human rights be swept under the rug and directly questioned to the Health Minister and the AIIMS Raipur administration. If the government cannot even ensure a basic ambulance service for a critical patient in its own capital, it has lost the moral right to govern. Citizens are no longer asking for miracles from these “premier” institutions; they are simply begging for basic medical decency something this administration seems entirely incapable of providing.
