A woman had to carry her mother’s dead body in a trolley-rickshaw in the town when the MKCG Medical College Hospital authorities denied her a hearse vehicle on Wednesday afternoon.
Reports said Santoshini Behera and her brother Trinath Singh from Gate Bazaar had admitted their mother Chandrama Singh at the MKCG Hospital after she complained of illness on Monday. However, Chandrama died while undergoing treatment at the hospital at 10 am on the day.
Santoshini and her brother being poor did not have enough money to arrange a hearse van. They requested the hospital authorities to provide a vehicle to carry their mother’s body. But the hospital authorities expressed their inability to provide a hearse vehicle as the sister-brother did not deposit the requisite money.
According to the Government guidelines, one has to deposit a certain amount to avail the hearse vehicle services.
Finding no other way, Santoshini and her brother took her mother’s body in a trolley-rickshaw from the hospital.