Rats gnawed at a dead body kept in the mortuary of Hamidia Hospital in the capital Bhopal. The matter came to light on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said, "We have ordered an inquiry." The Congress targeted the Madhya Pradesh government and said, 'Even dead bodies are unsafe in self-reliant MP'.
The information about the ears of the dead body being gnawed by rats came to light on Tuesday afternoon when the relatives came to collect the body after the postmortem. When the family inquired with the staff, they said, this keeps happening here.
The angry relatives objected and created ruckus.
The deceased identified as 50-year-old BR Singh, a resident of Parvaliya, died on Monday. The family had kept the dead body in mortuary at 7 pm. When the dead body was taken out of the deep freezer on Tuesday morning, blood was oozing from both the ears.
Director in charge said - We are troubled by rats. Dr. Neelam Srivastava, in-charge director of the Medico Legal Institute, said, "Mercury is full of rats. We have put cages to catch rats. Cakes are also kept, so that the rats can be reduced. Holes have been drilled in some deep freezers. It is our endeavor that such an incident does not happen again.
The Medical Education Minister has ordered an inquiry into the matter. He has also asked to ensure that if there is any reason, it should be ascertained. We have started the process of making Mercury completely modular.
Not only this, wherever mortuary is available in all district hospitals and medical colleges, the process of making modular has been started.
Congress media department president KK Mishra tweeted on the incident, not only humans are unsafe in self-reliant Madhya Pradesh, even human dead bodies are unsafe in hospitals.