Civil hospital ‘forgets’ to do postmortem

 Civil hospital ‘forgets’ to do postmortem

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Rajkot: 19.09.2020

A 70-year-old accident victim’s grieving family in Gondal were subjected to more trauma after they were asked to bring his body to the Rajkot Civil Hospital allegedly because doctors there forgot to conduct his postmortem.

The furious family members of Batuk Kandoria, who died in a road accident on September 12 in Gondal town, had a heated altercation with the staff at the hospital on Friday. After Kandoria succumbed at the civil hospital at around 5am on Friday, his body was handed over to the family who took it to Gondal, 40 km from Rajkot.

Babu Kandoria, younger brother of the deceased told TOI: “We completed all the post-death rituals at home. Just as we were about to start for the crematorium, I got a call from hospital saying that we are required to take my brother’s body back Rajkot civil hospital.”

“The person who called me said they had forgotten to perform the mandatory postmortem,” Babu said.

At around 10:30am, the deceased’s kin again travelled to Rajkot with his body for the procedure. Finally, it was handed over to them again at 2:30pm.

Dr. Pankaj Buch, medical superintendent of the civil hospital, could not be contacted for comments despite several attempts.

“Had there been even half an hour’s delay in calling us, how would they have conducted the postmortem?” Babu asked.

Relatives of accident victim forced to bring back his body from Gondal to Rajkot Civil Hospital just 30 minutes before the cremation