Big-bad city has no good samaritans anymore

Police, passers-by ignore accident victim; Nimhans doctors refuse treatment
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: The big bad city has no good samaritans anymore. A call centre employee, who met with an accident and was found bleeding on the road, remained unattended for an excruciating two hours.

Even the policemen who arrived there supposedly on the call of duty turned a blind eye.

According to the victim, an overspeeding Tata Sumo, which he thinks is another call centre vehicle, dashed onto his two-wheeler from behind while he was near Nimhans at around 1 a.m. on Sunday.

‘‘I just flew and crash-landed on the footpath. By that time, the Sumo had sped away,’’ he told this website’s newspaper.

He sustained severe injuries on his right leg and wounded his left knee and left hand. ‘‘My mobile had run out of charge, so I could not contact anybody. I was lying on the road with a profusely bleeding leg. Though I shouted and tried to stop each vehicle that passed by, none stopped,’’ he recollected.

‘‘Then a Hoysala (police patrol jeep) stopped. The policeman inside told the driver in foul language to ignore me thinking that I was drunk. But the driver came out and said he would send an autorickshaw in two minutes. But nobody turned up,’’ he said.

However, there was still light at the end of the tunnel. Nazir, an autorickshaw driver and his friend took the victim to Nimhans. His plight did not end there. The doctors working in the Emergency refused to treat him as it was not a neuro case.

‘‘Nazir Bhai had to threaten them saying he would call the DCP to make them at least dress my wound. The way they did it was even more painful,’’ he said.

The victim was later admitted to the Sagar Apollo Hospital where he underwent an operation on Monday.