A ruckus was created by relatives of a 70-year old woman whose body was found disfigured by rodents on Sunday at Kasturba hospital mortuary. The woman had died after prolonged illness on Saturday.
Negligence was witnessed at Kasturba hospital at BHEl after body of Gadia Bai who was undergoing treatment for Asthma at the hospital died on Saturday night. After the death of the deceased her body was kept in the mortuary of the hospital which was scheduled to be handed over to the family on Sunday but when the relatives of the deceased reached to take the body for performing the last rites they were shocked to find injury marks on face and neck region of the body that were nibbled by rodents. After the death family members were told that the body would be handed over on Sunday. Agitating relatives were pacified by the police intervention and later the relatives lodged a complaint with the police regarding the negligence.
Son of deceased Guptesh Kundelkar claimed that bite marks on head, face, nose, neck and other body parts were witnessed and they have spotted rats and near morgue. He claimed that his mother was critical for the past two days and on Saturday she died.
Dr A K Dave, Chief medical and Health officer Kasturba hospital said that the on duty staff responsible for the mortuary have been suspended and a three member committee has been formed which would enquire into the matter and if the staff is found guilty strict action would be taken.
Instructions for measures to prevent any such kind of incident have been given. New mortuary is has been made and would be operational soon, he added.
Refuting the allegations of presence of rodents in the morgue of hospital Dr Dave said that the temperature of mortuary is maintained at very low temperature which is hard for the survival of rodents but was not able to provide satisfactory answer over injury marks.