A video of a devotee exorcising a patient inside an ambulance in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, is going viral on social media. In reality, this young man was bitten by a cobra snake and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. But the relatives began to exorcise the person in the ambulance itself. The ambulance driver refused to do it but, not agreeing, he made a video for them.
Ganesh Kade was bitten by a cobra on Tuesday night in Betul’s Mahupani village. His relatives immediately called the ambulance. When the ambulance reached the scene, a devotee was already operating on the person. The ambulance staff stopped the exorcism, they put the young man in the ambulance and began to leave for the hospital. But the young man’s relatives sat in the ambulance with Bhagat and started sweeping the street.
When the ambulance driver, Krishna Pawar, became suspicious, he stopped the ambulance and looked back to see a fight inside the ambulance, so he tried to stop it. When they couldn’t agree, the driver recorded a video and made it viral. The old man who performed the exorcism is said to be the maternal uncle of the young victim. The old man admitted that they had performed an exorcism on him and that the snake that bit him was tied up in the town. Health experts say that in such cases, wasting time on exorcism can put the patient’s life at risk.
Ambulance driver Krishna says there was a case of snake bite during the night. When they arrived in town to pick up the patient, an exorcism was being carried out there. He spoke to the family about the delay and they took the patient in the ambulance. Meanwhile, Bhagat also came in the ambulance and was sweeping the street, of which I made a video.
Dr Ranu Verma, doctor at the district hospital, says I saw in the video that Bhagat was doing an exorcism. Even though the ambulance driver refused, the exorcism continued. This is very dangerous. Due to wastage of time in this, many times the patient loses his life because if the snake bite treatment is started within half an hour, the patient is cured.
