Donkey-cart used to shift body in absence of ambulance.

SHIKARPUR -- In yet another display of callousness by government hospitals, dead body of an old heatstroke victim had to be loaded onto a donkey-cart and taken back home in Garhi Yasin town after a government hospital refused to provide an ambulance, according to a video that went viral on social media on Sunday.

Sources said that when 60-year-old Sikandar Khokhar alias Ashang, who was mentally retarded, fainted after suffering a heatstroke two days ago, area people brought him on a donkey-cart to nearest government hospital where he was declared dead on...

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