Rewa (MP): The family of a 22-year-old man who died in a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh has protested after it was given the body of another man for cremation. It has refused to take the wrong body from the hospital's mortuary in Rewa.
The doctor involved in the incident, an assistant professor of the medical college attached to the hospital, has been suspended, officials said.
The man's father, Ramvishal Kushwaha, said the district Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) claimed his son was cremated by the local body authorities.
The deceased was admitted in the government-run Sanjay Gandhi Hospitals ICU ward on August 3 after initial treatment at Mauganj his father Ramvishal Kushwaha told reporters on Monday.
After that doctors referred him to the COVID-19 centre within the hospital, no information was provided about him, he alleged.
After four days when they tried to find out the condition of the ailing man, the doctors on August 9 informed family members that he had died and asked them to identify the body in the mortuary, Kushwaha said.
When the bag in which the body was kept was opened, they were shocked to find that it was that of another man but the tag on it was that of his son, he said.
Enraged over it, the family members gheraoed the offices of commissioner and superintendent of police demanding action against negligent doctors.
Ramvishal Kushwaha said till date they have not been given the COVID-19 test report of his son.
Meanwhile, taking the matter seriously, the Rewa division commissioner suspended assistant professor of the government medical college, Dr Rakesh Patel, on charges of negligence in the matter, the officials said.
Ramvishal Kushwaha alleged that probably hospital authorities cremated his son along with others a few days ago, but are not revealing the truth behind his death.
Though Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Yatnesh Tripathi claimed that the body was cremated by local body authorities, the family has not yet received his ashes, the distraught father said.
(PTI Report)
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