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Swapping of bodies angers relatives

Staff Reporter

Hospital authorities at the receiving end

BHUBANESWAR: Manas Kumar Gochhayat was on Saturday shocked to learn that the body on which he grieved in the morning was not that of his sister.

He came to know about it after the authorities of a city-based private hospital called up on his cellphone and informed that the body was "inadvertently changed." By that time, he had already covered a distance of 50 km on way to his village in Mayurbhanj district.

When an angry Manas Kumar returned to the hospital, claimants of the body were lashing out at the authorities for the negligence.

His sister Nirupama, 31, was admitted to the hospital a fortnight ago as her heart ailment worsened. She breathed her last on Friday night. Another woman Sulochan Das, died in the wee hours of Saturday. There was confusion as both bodies were kept at the same place. Mr. Manas Kumar was handed over the body wrapped in a white cloth bearing his sister's name.

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