Kochi: An ambulance driver who ferried a badly injured migrant worker to a hospital took away his mobile phone since he could not pay the vehicle rental then. The mobile phone was returned when the relatives of the injured came from Bhopal, traced the ambulance driver and paid him the vehicle charges. Meanwhile, the injured Muhammad Javik underwent an hours-long surgery at the hospital and is out of danger now.
Javik was seriously injured in the wee hours of Thursday, near Telk at Angamaly, when a truck rammed him and his stationary car. Both his legs were crushed as the truck ran over his legs. Javik, who works as a driver for a Delhi-based car transporter, had reached Angamaly driving a Benz car that was sent from Delhi to Thiruvalla. Until Bengaluru the car was transported in a truck and from there Javik was taking the car by road to be handed over to its owner in Thiruvalla. When the vehicle reached Angamaly, its fuel got over. While he bought petrol and was filling the car, a speeding truck hit Javik and the car.
The car had to be cut open by fire fighters to take out Javik. After initial treatment at Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly, Javik was shifted in an ambulance to a hospital in Ernakulam for advanced treatment. Since Javik had lost a lot of blood and needed to be operated upon immediately, hospital authorities searched for his mobile phone to inform his relatives and came to know how it got "lost". They had to resort to other ways to finally reach his relatives.
When Javik's relatives called his number, they came to know that the ambulance driver had taken the mobile phone in lieu of the vehicle charges he had to pay.
