Patna: A state-run hospital in Bihar has courted controversy by declaring an alive COVID-19 patient dead and handing over another person’s body to his kin, prompting an inquiry into the incident. The incident befell at a hospital in Patna on Sunday.
The hospital authorities declared Chunnu Kumar, a resident of Mahmadpur village within the Barh sub-division in Patna district who was present process remedy for COVID-19, dead and handed over the body of another person to his brother.
As quickly because the incident got here to mild, Patna District Magistrate Chandrasekhar Singh shot off a letter to the hospital authorities asking them to examine the matter and take motion in opposition to the person answerable for the incident inside 24 hours.
He additionally requested them to take steps to be certain that such incidents should not repeated sooner or later.Â
