Pooja Zunjar, a 25-year-old Marathi actress, and her newborn baby died within hours of birth in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district on Sunday due to the unavailability of an ambulance. Relatives of the deceased actress claimed – she would have been alive had they managed to get an ambulance in time. The shocking incident occured around 6.30 am on October 20 in Hingoli district, around 590 kms from Mumbai, in the Marathwada region – assembly elections on Sunday – paints a grim picture of the state of the health infrastructure in rural Maharashtra notwithstanding claims of political parties to provide quality healthcare to people.
