The body had been in the morgue at Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MY) for 11 days.
Indore:
The body of a highly decomposed man was found in the morgue of a government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Tuesday. The body, with its skeleton, was found on a stretcher in the morgue of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MY), the largest hospital in the city.
The hospital said the unidentified man’s body had been in the morgue for 11 days and that it was kept on the stretcher to be handed over to an NGO or Indore civic corps employees to perform the last rites.
Those responsible for the morgue will be notified and an investigation will be launched into the alleged lapse, said Dr. PS Thakur, superintendent of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital.
“Since the COVID-19 outbreak in the district, the load on the morgue has increased and many times we are out of freezers. Currently, the morgue has 16 freezers for body preservation. But it has been receiving corpses more than their capacity in a day, sometimes even 21 or 22. So we had also asked the government before to increase the number of freezers, “he said.
In July, a family cremated a different person instead of their son, who shared the same name, in an alleged mix-up at the same hospital. A complaint was filed accusing the hospital management of gross negligence.
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