India, Feb. 8 -- The Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of an incident where the body of a 35-year-old woman was transported on a motorised push cart by her family as they could allegedly not afford an ambulance. The commission termed the situation as "gross violation of human dignity and a serious failure of the public health system".

The notice was issued following a news report published on January 30, which detailed that the woman died during treatment at Faridabad's Badshah Khan Civil Hospital. According to the report, the family was unable to arrange Rs.700 demandedby a private cart operator for transporting the body and did not receive any ambulance support too from the hospital or district admini...