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CMCH plays a good Samaritan

Staff Reporter

Coimbatore: Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) authorities helped a family from Kanpur take home the body of a person.

A group of 13 persons from Kanpur was staying at a lodge here after visiting Madurai, Rameshwaram and Udhagamandalam. On November 19, they came to the hospital carrying Ram Lakkan Varma (50) after he suffered uneasiness.

The Casualty Medical Officer on examining Varma declared him as "brought dead." The death was suspected to be of "mio cardial infarction."

As the members could not express what they wanted due to language barrier, the hospital Dean Dr. T. P. Kalanithi and the Resident Medical Officer, Dr. A. Angusamy, sought the help of the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Spectrum for a translator.

Amrish Parikh of the club understood that the family members wanted to take the body to their hometown. Then a post-mortem examination was done and a certificate that the body was "not infectious" was issued.

A no-objection certificate was also obtained from the Race Course Police. And the body was embalmed.

As the ambulance operators demanded Rs. 25,000 for taking the body to Kanpur, the hospital authorities contacted the Coimbatore Railway Station Manager, M. G. James, and the Divisional Railway Authorities at Palakkad for taking the body by the Raptisagar Express on November 20.

The railway authorities arranged a special brake van with a coffin carriage attached to the train from Palakkad.

The coffin maker too accepted only the material cost from the family. From the parcel-booking centre to the coach, the hospital drivers carried the coffin.

The family members thanked everyone who proved that humanitarianism is a not a rarity.

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