Physique Rots At Indore Hospital Mortuary, Saved On Stretcher For 11 Days

Indore:

A extremely decomposed physique of a person was discovered within the mortuary of government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Tuesday. The physique, with its skeleton, was discovered on a stretcher within the mortuary of Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital, the town’s largest hospital.

The hospital stated the unidentified man’s physique had been on the mortuary for 11 days and that it was stored on the stretcher to be handed over to an NGO or Indore’s civic physique workers to carry out final rites.

A discover might be given to these chargeable for the mortuary and a probe into the alleged lapse might be began, stated Dr PS Thakur, superintendent of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital.

“For the reason that COVID-19 outbreak within the district, the load on the mortuary has elevated and lots of instances, we ran out of freezers. At current, the mortuary has 16 freezers for preservation of the physique. Nevertheless it has been receiving our bodies greater than its capability in a day, generally even 21 or 22. So we had requested the federal government earlier too about growing the variety of freezers,” he stated.

In July, a household cremated a unique individual as an alternative of their son, who shared the identical identify, in an alleged mix-up by the identical hospital. A grievance was filed accusing the hospital administration of gross negligence.