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The woman, who had tested positive for coronavirus, was rushed to the emergency ward of the Shatabdi Hospital in Mumbai on June 30. Her son alleged the staffers asked him to put his dead mother’s body in a body bag.
The hospital staff asked the man to put his mother’s corpse in the body bag, put it on a stretcher and take it to the ground floor.
The hospital staff of a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run hospital in Kandivali area of Mumbai forced a young boy to put his mother’s body in a body bag after her death and carry it to the ambulance, without being provided PPE. Two workers of the hospital were suspended after the incident came to light. An investigation into the case has been initiated.
The woman, who had tested positive for coronavirus, was rushed to the emergency ward of the Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali on June 30. Pallavi Utekar breathed her last on July 2.
Following her death, the hospital called her son and asked him to come to the hospital immediately. At the hospital, he was asked to fill out some forms. While he was completing the hospital formalities, he alleged the staffers asked him to put his dead mother’s body in a body bag.
Speaking with India Today TV, he said the whole episode has left him shocked. He also alleged that the hospital staff asked him to put the body in the body bag, put it on a stretcher and take it to the ground floor.
“I told them I don’t have a PPE kit and what if I contract the virus? But the hospital staff said I will have to do it. So, I put her body in the bag. My cousin was there with me. After I was done packing the body in the bag, they asked us to put the body on the stretcher and take it to the ground floor. In the process, I touched the body a couple of times,” he told India Today TV.
After the incident, he went to the local MNS leader and complained.
He said, “I didn’t like the behaviour of the hospital staff and so I went to the local MNS leader and told him what I had been made to do. The MNS leader had a word with the senior doctor of the hospital who promised to take strong action against the staff.”
MNS leader Dinesh Salvi said, “After the boy came to us, we spoke with the MS of the hospital, Doctor Pramod Nagarkar, and asked him to take action. Two workers have been suspended. We have also asked that action should be taken against the doctor who was present there at the time of the incident and we have been promised of the same.”
The deceased’s husband, too, had tested positive for coronavirus. He is admitted in a separate hospital.
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