Team Goemkarponn
CANACONA: In a tragic incident, an ambulance driver at Canacona Community Health Centre (CHC) was left devastated after learning that a 20-year-old youth brought dead to the hospital was his own son.
According to reports, the youth collapsed while watching a football match at Bhatpal in Canacona. He was immediately rushed to the Canacona CHC, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
At the time, his father, Sadanand Phadte, who works as an ambulance driver at the CHC, was preparing to transport another patient to the South Goa District Hospital in Margao.
While waiting for additional patient transfers, Phadte was informed that a young man had died in the casualty department. However, he was left shattered when he learnt that the deceased was none other than his own son.
The tragic incident has cast a pall of gloom over the area.
