Bengal Covid Affected person Comes House Days After Being Declared Useless

Kolkata:

In a abnormal incident, an aged coronavirus affected person was once introduced again house in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district by way of his members of the family, per week once they gained “his frame” from a COVID sanatorium and cremated it.

Shibdas Bandyopadhyay, a resident of Birati, returned house an afternoon earlier than the members of the family had been to accomplish his shradh.

The 75-year-old guy was once admitted to the sanatorium in Barasat on November 11 after he examined certain for COVID-19 and two days later his members of the family had been knowledgeable of his dying, a well being division reliable mentioned on Saturday.

The frame was once saved in a plastic bag, following COVID protocols, and proven to the members of the family from a distance, they usually mentioned they might no longer see the face obviously.

“We cremated the frame and had been ready to accomplish the shradh these days. On the other hand, we were given a choice the day gone by. Anyone instructed us that my father has recovered and we will have to prepare for an ambulance to take him house from the sanatorium,” Mr Bandyopadhyay’s son mentioned.

“We’re stunned and shocked. On the other hand, we introduced him house. We have no idea whom we have now cremated,” he mentioned.

When enquired on whose frame was once cremated pondering it to that of Bandyopadhyay, the well being division reliable mentioned that any other aged COVID affected person, Mohinimohan Mukhopadhyay of Khardah had additionally died on November 13 and “it was once he whose closing rites had been carried out”.

The incident got here to gentle on Friday after Mr Mukhopadhyay’s members of the family had been knowledgeable that he has been cured of COVID-19 they usually reached the sanatorium to take him house, the reliable mentioned.

The state well being division constituted a four-member committee to probe the topic, the reliable mentioned.

When contacted, an reliable of the North 24 Parganas district well being division mentioned, “If laxity is located at the a part of the sanatorium, we will be able to take strict motion. However it seems that that the confusion was once created by way of paperwork of each the oldsters.”

In the meantime, the BJP’s West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh claimed that such incidents can handiest occur in West Bengal.

He accused the state govt of accomplishing much less choice of checks in an afternoon to stay the coronavirus tally low.

“Our neighbouring states like Bihar, Odisha and UP are checking out over one lakh of checks while they (the West Bengal govt) are retaining it to 45,000 as a result of they wish to suppress the reality.

“In the event that they take a look at over one lakh of samples, over 20,000 new circumstances might be recognized. They’ve no rights to play video games with the lives of the folks,” Mr Ghosh instructed journalists.

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