Sagar man declared dead by doctor found alive in mortuary

BHOPAL: The chief medical officer of Sagar instituted an inquiry after a doctor in Bina issued a “memo” for the postmortem of a patient who was still alive.

The ‘dead man’ man who was kept in mortuary for the whole night was found alive in the morning around 9.30am.

He, however, died about one and half hour later. Around 9pm in Bina on June 20, Dr Avinash Saxena , the doctor on duty, sent an intimation to the police about the death of Kashiram Soni, 72. An employee of the hospital delivered the doctor’s intimation to Bina police station SHO Anil Mourya. Based upon the doctor’s report, the police also registered a dead person’s case.

The next morning, when the SHO visited the hospital mortuary and was making a panchnama, he found that the man was “still breathing.” “I was shocked and immediately called an ambulance to take him to a hospital,” Mourya said. However, he died around 10.30 am. Dr SR Roshan, the chief medical officer, said, “Around 9.30 pm on Thursday the doctor had informed the police about the death of an elderly man who was found alive in the morning. The carelessness on the part of the doctor will be probed.”

Police said that the man was admitted to the civil hospital in Bina on June 14 after he was found lying on a road unconscious by Dial 100.

His family persons reached the hospital after his death around 3 pm on Friday. The family belongs to neighbouring Chattarpur district.