Funeral pyres lined up. (Representational picture)
A 40-year-old man presumed lifeless confirmed up a lot to the shock of his family, per week after that they had carried out a funeral mistakenly figuring out a decomposed corpse as his physique.
The goof-up occurred after the state-run RK Hospital declared the physique of a man named Goverdhan Prajapat, who was beneath therapy on the hospital, as ‘unidentified’ and later Omkar Lal Gadulia’s kinfolk wrongly took possession of that physique at Rajsamand district in Rajasthan.
Gadulia, a liquor addict, had gone to Udaipur with out informing his family on May 11. He was admitted to a hospital owing to some liver-related drawback. Gadulia’s family was dwelling along with his brother after the coronavirus-induced lockdown, police stated.
On the identical day, Prajapat was taken from Mohi space to the RK Hospital by an ambulance service organized by some public representatives. He died throughout therapy, they stated.
“We had obtained a letter from the hospital authorities {that a} physique was mendacity unclaimed on the mortuary for 3 days.
We then circulated images of the deceased man on numerous fronts to determine the physique,” Kankroli police station SHO Yogendra Vyas advised PTI.
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He stated over a dozen folks got here to the hospital on May 15 to determine the physique. Police have been knowledgeable about it and the family members gave in writing at hand over the physique to them with out conducting any autopsy.
The family members wrongly recognized the physique to be that of Gadulia going by an analogous scar on his proper hand and look, and the police handed over the physique with out conducting any autopsy and DNA take a look at.
“The body was identified by the family members. DNA testing and post-mortem by a medical board is conducted when the body is unidentified following which the body is usually handed over to municipality for cremation,” Vyas stated.
The physique was taken away and the ultimate rites have been carried out on May 15 itself. However, Gadulia returned home on May 23 and was shocked to be taught that he was believed lifeless. Later, the police launched an investigation and recognized the physique which Gadulia’s family had cremated as that of Goverdhan Prajapat.
“Police were nowhere at fault in this case. The body was declared unidentified by the hospital authorities,” Vyas stated.
Meanwhile, the hospital authorities admitted that the entire incident was a goof-up on half of the nursing and mortuary employees.
“There was a huge patient load. The patient was admitted to the hospital through 108 ambulance service. The incident took place due to lack of coordination between the nursing and mortuary staff. Appropriate action will be taken in the matter,” Principal Medical Officer of RK Hospital, Lalit Purohit stated.
Prajapat is survived by three youngsters, who had been despatched to welfare home after his well being deteriorated. His spouse had left him attributable to his well being points, police stated.
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