Assam: Patient declared dead by doctors found alive in morgue
The man's relatives claimed hospital informed them that he died during treatment but they later found him lying on the floor in a morgue.
A man who was allegedly declared dead by the authorities of Tinsukia Civil Hospital in Assam was later found alive lying on the floor in an isolated ward meant for bodies.
The patient has been identified as Mohammad Hussain. His relatives claimed that they were informed by hospital authorities that he died during treatment.
"Doctors informed us that Hussian had died, three days after he was admitted to the hospital. However, we later found him lying on the floor in an isolated ward meant for bodies," relatives said.
Denying the claims made by Hussain's family, hospital authorities said the 'isolated room' is a ward where critical patients are kept, adding that a body of the patient who died a few days back was not moved yet.
"That room is a part of our medicine ward where critical patients are kept. The only body of a patient who died earlier was not removed yet. It is not a morgue. We kept Hussain on the floor so that he does not fall down from bed," Gopinath Bardale, Superintendent of Tinsukia Civil Hospital, told ANI.