NOW, COVID-19 BODIES SWAPPED AT RAJINDRA HOSPITAL

PATIALA/LUDHIANA: Barely ten days after a case of swapping of Covid-19 victims’ bodies at Amritsar’s Government Medical College and Hospital on July 19 led to shock waves across the state, another such case was reported from Rajindra Hospital in Patiala on Wednesday.

In this instance, the body of a man in his 60s, Inderjit, of Basti Jodhewal, was ferried all the way from Rajindra Hospital to the Ludhiana civil hospital. The second body involved in the horrific mix-up was that of a man in his 80s, who is from Sangrur.

Both hospitals claim that a patient’s relative was at fault.

Dr Preetinder Chahal, who is assigned the duty of disposing of bodies at Rajindra Hospital, said, “The 62-year-old’s son had identified his father’s body in the presence of officials. Despite that he took the wrong body. Later he told us he was not in the condition to identify the body due to being in shock at the time.”