Amritsar, July 19, 2020: Staff at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here interchanged bodies of two coronavirus victims on Saturday while sending them to their families in Amritsar and Hoshiarpur.
A 37-year-old woman of Damganj, Amritsar, and a 92-year-old man of Hoshiarpur district, who was also undergoing treatment at the GMCH, died of coronavirus at the hospital on Saturday.
Their bodies were sent to the mortuary and the personnel there were told to pack the bodies in personal protection equipment (PPE) before they were handed over to family members.
However, after PPE was put on the bodies, they were wrongly labelled. The body of the woman was sent to Hoshiarpur while that of the man was sent to woman’s relatives in Amritsar.
During cremation ceremony, family members of the deceased discovered that the bodies had been switched.