A district hospital in Agra treated a special patient on Friday, where the staff at the hospital found themselves in an inexplicable situation when a priest came crying with a request to bandage the broken arm of an idol of Lord Krishna.
In the bizarre incident, the staff faced a priest who came worried to the hospital requesting them to attend to the deity’s idol, whose arm he accidentally broke while giving it a bath in the morning. The hospital after some reluctance carried out a registration in the name of Shri Krishna’ and also dressed the arm of the idol back.
A video of the crying priest with an idol of Laddu Gopal’ – the childhood form of the deity – with a broken arm also took rounds on social media.
Devotion: Agra district hospital staff went through a perplexed situation on Friday, when a priest came wailing with an unusual request to bandage the broken arm of an idol of Laddu Gopal – the childhood form of Lord Krishna. (1/4) @pra0902 pic.twitter.com/bda3kPA4td
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The priest reached the district hospital at about 9 am according to some eyewitnesses and claimed that the hospital staff tend to the idol. Priest Lekh Singh said he broke the idol when he was giving it a bath.
“When I was praying in the morning and giving bath to the idol of the lord, the idol slipped and its arm was broken,” he said. “I was deeply moved because I am attached with the god. In my desperation, I went to district hospital to get it treated,” he said.
Lekh Singh said for the past 30 years he is a priest at the Pathwari temple in Kheria Mod, Arjun Nagar. “No one took my request seriously at the hospital. I was broken from inside and began crying for my god,” he said.
The Chief Medical Superintendent at the district hospital, told, the priest was also accompanied by the locals, eyewitnesses said. Dr Ashok Kumar Agrawal.
