SHILLONG: Programme manager of Lam Jingshai, Rebina Subba on Friday clarified that five people caught in the ambulance as mentioned in the photograph (ST Sept.12) were not FKJGP volunteers.
Subba said that the photograph of the person caught with alcohol bottles kept on the stretcher in the FKJGP ambulance has invoked negative controversy.
She said besides the driver, the occupants also included a minor girl who was the daughter of the woman present in the ambulance.
“The ambulance was used for the purpose of dropping a body from Ganesh Das Hospital to Lad Nongkrem on the night of September 11 and on the way back after dropping the body security personnel caught hold of the ambulance.
“The other four members (two males, one woman and her daughter) were representatives from Lam Jingshai project and they were helping the down trodden woman who died,” Subba said.
According to the NGO leader, it was sad to see that there were no government mortuary vans for help and it was the FKJGP who came to the rescue of the distressed.
“This is a sensitive matter which has been highlighted in a manner which has invoked wrong notions.
“It is also to be noted that the five people caught were taken to the Civil Hospital for medical test and none of them had any trace of alcohol as per reports,” the NGO manager said in a statement issued here on Friday.