New Delhi: A Bihar hospital has stirred controversy after announcing an alive COVID-19 patient useless and handing over another person’s body to his kin. The incident reportedly passed off at a hospital in Patna on Sunday (April 11, 2021).
The hospital authorities declared Chunnu Kumar, a resident of Mahmadpur village within the Barh sub-division in Patna district who was present process therapy for COVID-19, useless and handed over the body of another person to his brother, as per the PTI information company.
The incident led to the Patna District Magistrate Chandrasekhar Singh asking the hospital authorities to examine the matter and take motion towards the person accountable inside a day. Singh additionally requested them to take steps to be certain that such incidents don’t repeat sooner or later.
Patna, notably, is the worst COVID-19-hit metropolis in Bihar.
Meanwhile, the state’s COVID-19 caseload has elevated to 2,83,229, after greater than 7,200 confirmed circumstances had been reported within the final 48 hours. The state has additionally witnessed 1,610 coronavirus-related fatalities.
