CANACONA
Tragedy struck an ambulance driver while he was preparing to shift a youth from the Canacona Community Health Centre (CHC), to the hospital in Margao, only to realise that the youth was his own son, who was later declared dead at the CHC.
According to sources, Vignesh Phadte (20) was brought to the CHC in an unconscious state after collapsing while watching a football match at Bhatpal, Canacona.
Around the same time, the CHC ambulance driver Sadanand Phadte had a patient already in the ambulance to be shifted from the CHC to the South Goa District Hospital at Margao, when he was alerted of a serious case pertaining to an unconscious youth who had been brought to the CHC Casualty. In the meantime, the doctor on duty declared the unconscious youth dead on arrival.
As Sadanand was waiting to transfer more patients from CHC to SGDH, he was in shock when someone went to him and conveyed that the youth who had died had been his own son.
