MYSURU: Without transportation choices available because of the lockdown, a 45-year-old daily-wage employee petitioned his rickety bike for 300km more than four times to purchase life-saving medications due to his 10-year-old son dealing with a chronic neurological difficulty, reports Shrinivasa M.
Anand, by Ganiganakoppalu village, approximately 30km in Mysuru, needed to get pills for his son Wednesday night.
Since his son has been diagnosed with the disease, Anand was seeing Nimhans, Bengaluru, each 2 weeks to have pills free of charge.
Doctors have advised him to not miss a single dose of medication because of his child as any disturbance might set back the treatment strategy through the years.
Together with the lockdown projecting his scheduled trip Nimhans in May from equipment, Anand mulled many alternatives.
He pleaded with buddies to borrow scooter, but they denied due to fears which the vehicle could be seized by cops to get lockdown offenses.
This was Anand chose to pedal all of the way and picked the Kanakapura path because of his trip from Mysuru into Bengaluru and back house, all adding up to well over 300km.
With time running from the Wednesday deadline , Anand took off his bike out of his village approximately 3am on Sunday (May 23) with Rs 600 in the hand.