A body of a newborn male child was recovered from a toilet pan at the Community Health Centre (CHC), Kuanrmunda in Sundargarh district on Friday night.
The Kuanrmunda police buried the body after a postmortem in the presence of a magistrate on Saturday.
According to hospital sources, a 15-year-old unmarried girl along with her mother had come to the hospital on Friday evening with complaint of abdominal pain. After administering an injection, doctors advised her to go to the Rourkela Government Hospital for better
treatment. Now, hospital staff and police suspect that she might have delivered a dead child and dumped the same in the pan.
“After a post-mortem, we have buried the dead body in presence of the magistrate on Saturday,” said OIC Manoj Nayak.