Two years ago, when Rawshan Ara Begum of Naogaon\'s remote Saraswatipur village became pregnant for the first time, she sought no antenatal care. It was not the lack of awareness that stopped Rawshan Ara from visiting the Upazila Health Complex in Mohadevpur, about 10 km from Saraswatipur, for check-ups during her pregnancy. Rather, she dreaded the hour-long bumpy ride on a rickshaw-van. \r\nTo help ease the sufferings of pregnant women, Tajkir-Uz-Zaman came up with the idea of modifying a battery run easy bike into an ambulance. It has a siren atop and an oxygen cylinder inside the cabin, where patient can lie down easily on one side-seat while 2 to 3 attendees of the patient can sit on the other side-seat at the back of the vehicle. |
