Two migrants die in Hazaribag and Palamu districts

Hazaribag/Daltonganj: Two migrants, one each from Hazaribag and Palamu, died after reaching Jharkhand from Mumbai and Delhi respectively.
In the first incident, a 45-year-old migrant who reached Saria station in Giridih from Mumbai on Monday night, fell ill and died in a bus which was ferrying 30 others to the Hazaribag Reception Centre for a medical screening, officials said on Tuesday. The man, identified as Dineshwar Ram, was a resident of Jalandh panchayat under Ichak police station in Hazaribag district.
Confirming the death, Hazaribag SDO Meghna Bharadwaj said Ram was one of the 31 migrants who were being taken to the centre in a bus after they deboarded a shramik special train from Mumbai.
“When the bus reached, all except Ram alighted from the vehicle. When we went to check on him, he was seated senseless on the backseat. Later, Ram was sent to Hazaribag Medical College and Hospital by the on-field doctors where he was declared brought dead,” said Bharadwaj adding Ram probably died on the way before the bus reached Hazaribag.
The SDO added, “Ram had fallen ill on the bus and was given some medicine by the driver before reaching Hazaribag. His body has been kept in the morgue and samples have been collected for Covid-19 tests.”
Meanwhile, in Palamu, a 65-year-old migrant died of heat stroke at the Chiyanki airstrip on Tuesday where he and other migrants had assembled for their medical check-ups. The man, a resident of Satbarwa block in Palamu, tested negative for Covid-19 on the Truenat machine.
Palamu civil surgeon John F Kennedy said, “The 65-year-old man reached Muzaffarpur from Delhi in a shramik special train. From there, he managed to reach Aurangabad and entered Harihurganj in Palamu. After authorities came to know about the movement of a few unscreened migrants, they were taken to the Chiyanki airstrip for medical check-ups.”
He added, “Upon reaching the airstrip, the elderly man started feeling uneasy and was rushed to the medical college and hospital in Daltonganj where he later died. He tested negative for Covid-19 on the Truenat machine. Heatstroke leading to heart failure is suspected as the cause of death.”
On Monday, two more migrants died in Palamu. While the first one died at the hospital after falling ill at an institutional quarantine centre in Chhaterpur, the other, an elderly who came from Chapra in Bihar, was found dead under a tree near the town.