(IN): Injured jumbo dies for want of treatment

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Injured jumbo dies for want of treatment

 

From Our Correspondent

DIPHU, April 30 – Due to the apathy and negligence on the part of the

forest department the wild elephant which got half stuck in marshy

land near Doldoli in the elephant corridor after being hit by a

speeding railway engine died after six days at around 2 am on April 26

in Karbi Anglong.

 

The wild jumbo which was hit by an approaching speeding railway engine

on April 20 at around 9 am in this elephant corridor and slipped down

a steep slope and continued to be half trapped in the marshy land just

by the railway track with its hip bones fractured. Despite a team of

doctors who visited the spot from Kaziranga National Park the victim

jumbo was not administered even a single drop of medicine for reasons

best known to them and it was left to suffer in half trapped position

in the marshy land.

 

When the DFO West division was contacted he said that the magnitude of

injury or cause of its injury is not ascertained and he shifted his

responsibility on to the expert doctors of Khanapara saying even a

slightest movement may aggravate the situation. The DFO shifted his

responsibility to the expert doctors but did not take any trouble to

find out any attractive solution to rescue the victim jumbo and left

it to groan in half trapped position on the mercy of God.

 

The expert doctors Dr Mohanlal Goldsmith, Assam State Zoo, Dr KK

Sharma and Dr Apurba Chakraborty, Khanapara who reached on April 25

evening took six days to reach Karbi Anglong to give medical advice to

rescue the elephant. And at last the rescue work started on 25th night

when the elephant was pulled out from the marshy land. At last the

fate had something for this helpless poor jubmo but it did not live to

see the sun of Saturdays morning and died due to its injuries. Even

the team of expert doctors said had they reached earlier they could

have saved the life of the elephant but the million dollar question is

why they did not reach in time from Guwahati. The reasons are best

known to the doctors and the Forest department.

 

Expressing deep anger the local people lamented that even during the

sixth day the EM i/c forest and environment, KAAC did not visit the

spot to oversee the rescue operation. This has created deep resentment

among the local people, they said.

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