The Government of Jharkhand will provide ₹1 lakh assistance each to the kin of people who lost their lives and ₹20,000 each to injured persons in the horrific bus accident near Jamunia Chowk in Mohanpur block on Tuesday morning. Jharkhand Health Minister Dr Irfan Ansari and Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Naman Priyash Lakra visited Sadar Hospital and Deoghar AIIMS to meet the injured. They met the devotees admitted in the hospital and enquired about their well-being.
Dr Ansari said that a total of six devotees, including the bus driver, have died in the accident, while 24 people have been injured. Out of these, eight devotees are being treated at Deoghar AIIMS.
The minister said that all the injured are being treated completely free of cost. Investigations, medicines and all medical facilities are being provided free of cost.
He said that the families of the deceased will be given an assistance amount of ₹1 lakh from the Disaster Management Fund and the injured will be given ₹20,000 from the Baba Mandir Kalyan Fund.
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Along with this, the district administration will also make arrangements to transport the injured and the dead to their homes.
The minister and the deputy commissioner instructed civil surgeon Dr Yugal Kishore Chaudhary and AIIMS director Dr Saurabh that no laxity should be shown in the treatment of all the injured.
The devotees involved in that bus accident were coming to Deoghar to attend the Shravani fair. The bus went out of control and collided with a truck on the side of the road and the accident took place.
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