Srinagar: Doctors at maternity hospital Lal Ded pooled money to help a non-local to take dead body of his spouse to Bijnoor district of Uttar Pradesh in central India.
Tamana, wife of Niazamuddin a resident of Bijnoor UP died after giving birth to baby boy at Lal Ded Hospital on Wednesday.
Tamana, according to doctors, was critical when admitted in the hospital. Despite the efforts put by the doctors she could not be saved.
As the husband of Tamana was unable to take the dead body of his spouse to his native place, all the doctors at the hospital extended helping hand to him and collected Rs 30,000 for him.
“We did it on humanitarian grounds. As an outsider, the husband of the deceased had little resources to manage a vehicle that could have ferried the body to Bijnoor. We arranged a vehicle for him and handed over money to him as well,” Deputy Medical Superintendent LD Hospital Dr Farah told news agency CNS.
“People of Kashmir are humane and affectionate. Nowhere in other state people and medicos are so helpful as in Kashmir,” Nizamuddin who works as a labour in Uri town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district said.