Dead man ‘comes alive’ at Ranchi hospital, but dies again

Dead man ‘comes alive’ at Ranchi hospital, but dies again

Dhritiman.Ray@timesgroup.com

Ranchi:27.05.2020

The brother of a man who died of electrocution has claimed that the deceased had “come alive” at hospital when his body was brought for autopsy on Tuesday. The family of the deceased man said the man collapsed again soon after and died, but “he could have been saved”.

Jeetendra Oraon, a resident of Kharta village, was brought to a community health center in Chanho block around 7:30am after he came in contact with a hightension overhead electrical wire while he was dismantling a tent at his village. The doctors pronounced him ‘dead on arrival’ and handed over the body to Chanho police, who brought it to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi, for autopsy.

The deceased’s younger brother Sikandar Oraon, who accompanied the police to Rims, said, “We left the CHC at11am and reached Rims at 1pm. While the technicians carried my brother on a trolley for autopsy, the staff said he was alive and asked for him to be shifted to the hospital’s central emergency ward. However, soon after he was shifted, doctors at the emergency said he had died. They also told me that my brother could have been saved if he was brought in a little earlier.”