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News India Live, Digital Desk: It is said that the last farewell of a person should be the most respectable. But what happened at BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, can prove to be a nightmare for any family. Here, two different families lost their loved ones on the same day, but a small negligence of the hospital’s ‘mortuary’ team had already turned the happiness of both the families into mourning, now their last rights were also hurt.
How did this terrible mistake happen?
Two different people were admitted for treatment. Destiny had written the end of both of them. When both of them died, their bodies were tagged and kept safe. But the real drama began when it came time to hand over the bodies to the families. The hospital staff handed over the bodies to the relatives without proper identification.
One family even reached the cremation ground with the dead body. Everything was ready, Pandit ji was reciting the mantra, it was just the turn of the funeral pyre when a family member expressed his desire to see the face for the ‘final darshan’. As soon as the white sheet was removed, everyone’s soul trembled; the person in front was a stranger!
That ‘scary’ journey from crematorium to hospital
In a hurry, the last rites were stopped and the medical college was immediately called. On the other hand, the other family was also confused. When both the families came face to face and the police also reached the spot, it was only then that it came to light that the dead bodies had been swapped. Imagine the condition of those family members who had come to bid farewell to their father or brother and had to wander from door to door.
Questions will be asked!
Can the administration of a medical college be so irresponsible? Has someone’s dead body been considered just a number or a file? The family members allege that the employees posted there were negligent in their duty. If at that time there had been no insistence on seeing his face at the cremation ground, perhaps that unfortunate person would have been burnt at the hands of a stranger and his real family would have kept searching for his dead body for the rest of his life.