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Ravinder Saini
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, June 4
The postmortem of a 39-year-old Covid patient was performed by a board of doctors at the PGIMS here on Thursday, two days after he died at an isolation centre in Charkhi Dadri.
The patient who worked at a private Gurugram firm was found dead in a bathroom of the isolation centre on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The body was brought to the PGIMS on Wednesday afternoon.
Body kept in ambulance for 24 hrs
The victim was found dead in the bathroom of an isolation centre in Charkhi Dadri on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday
The body was brought to the PGIMS, Rohtak, on Wednesday afternoon. It remained in ambulance for 24 hours as cops from Dadri did not come to complete paperwork till Thursday evening
“The body remained in the ambulance for 24 hours. Doctors at the PGIMS were ready to conduct the autopsy, but policemen from Dadri came this evening to complete the paperwork,” said Krishan Phogat, cousin of the deceased. Phogat maintained they had filed a police complaint against the doctors on duty of “negligence”, but to no avail.
Dr Manju, Civil Surgeon, Dadri, said postmortem of Covid patients was generally not performed, but in this case the autopsy had been recommended to find out the exact cause of death.
Sources said Charkhi Dadri DC Shri Prasad Sharma had issued the orders for the postmortem by the PGIMS and deputed Tehsildar Ajay Kumar as duty magistrate for the cremation of the deceased. Kumar said the delay happened due to a technical reason. The exact cause of death would be ascertained tomorrow, said Dr SK Dhattarwal, Head of Forensic Department, PGIMS.
Meanwhile, a video showing a youth at the centre alleging negligence has gone viral. “A Covid patient was lying in the washroom. I informed the staff but no doctor came,” he is heard saying.
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