Covid infected man buried 2 years ago returns home alive

Kamlesh Patidar, 30, a resident of Kaodkala in Madhya Pradesh, was declared dead and buried by the local administration in Covid second wave in 2021. Two years later, Kamlesh escaped from abductors in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and reached his maternal uncle's place Badveli in MP. The joy of his parents and wife knew no bounds on seeing his return from the dead.

Gush (Madhya Pradesh) :A surprising case has surfaced in MP's Dhar, where an infected person who was declared dead and buried by a private hospital during the second wave of Corona, returned home alive on Saturday. When he came back after 2 years, his family members were initially stunned but later expressed boundless joy. At first, they did not believe that Kamlesh was still alive.

In 2021, when the second wave of Corona was going on, 30-year-old Kamlesh Patidar, a resident of Kadodkala, Dhar, was also infected with the virus. Kamlesh was admitted to a private hospital in Baroda for treatment, but after undergoing treatment for a few days, the hospital administration said that Kamlesh died due to the spread of infection in the lungs. When the concerned hospital informed Kamlesh's family that he had died of Covid, the pandemic was at its peak. Due to this, the family members were not allowed to see and touch the dead body.

The hospital administration performed the last rites for Kamlesh by showing the dead body to the family members from about 20-25 feet away. They could not recognise or confirm the body. They simply believed at that time that Kamlesh was dead. After the death of Kamlesh, the whole family was sad, and his wife started living like a widow. After this, on Saturday, April 15, Kamlesh reached Badveli village of Sardarpur tehsil of Dhar, where his maternal uncle lives.

Kamlesh's maternal uncle was shocked to see him alive, and after that, he told the whole story. Later the maternal uncle called Kamlesh's father and told him about his return, but the family did not believe him. Then Kamlesh's parents and wife talked to him through video call, later they reached Sardarpur tehsil to pick up Kamlesh, where the family again celebrated his return.

On his experience through all this, Kamlesh said that "some 5-7 people had picked me up, they kept me hostage in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. They used to inject drugs except for one day so I always remain unconscious. On Friday, they were going somewhere else from Ahmedabad by a car when Kamlesh secretly sat in the trunk of that car. When they stopped at a hotel for tea breakfast, during this time I came out of the car and hid nearby, he said.

Later I took a bus from Ahmedabad to Indore and from there, reached my maternal uncle's house in Badveli, Dhar by bus, Kamlesh said. After meeting Kamlesh, the relatives informed the Sardarpur police station to complete the official process of his survival, but the youth is a resident of Kadodkala who comes to the Kanwan police station, so the Sardarpur police registered a case with the concerned police station.

Kamlesh will now be taken to the Kanwan police station, where he is registered dead on paper and steps are initiated to correct the records.