In a heart-wrenching incident, 34-year-old Vimla Singh had to carry her disabled husband Badan Singh on her shoulder for over 15km for several weeks to obtain a disability certificate from the CMO’s office in Mathura.
Since she did not have the money to hire an auto or a taxi, she walked from her house in Geeta Vihar colony to the CMO’s office and back. Earlier, an NGO had refused to give her husband a tricycle as his “one leg was working”.
The couple had approached the government to get a free wheelchair under a state-run scheme and required a disability certificate for that. To the get the certificate the couple had been making rounds of the health centre in Mathura for the past several weeks.
Additional Chief Medical Officer, Mathura, Dr Rajiv Gupta said that Badan Singh had been provided the certificate of 70 percent disability but he was not aware of his case. He admitted that disability certificates are issued once in a week on Monday and a photograph is required for the form.