Hospital staff suspended

TIRUCHI

Three workers of the Government Hospital in Thuraiyur in the district have been placed under suspension after a video-clip on social media showed a casual labourer suturing a dead body at the hospital mortuary after postmortem.

The video running for a few minutes depicts the person, who is usually hired at the hospital for washing clothes, engaged in making sutures on the body from chest to abdomen after the post-mortem.

Joint Director of Medical Services, Tiruchi, Shamsath Begum, conducted an inquiry on Thursday and said a report had been sent to the higher authorities for action against some others in the hospital who were responsible for allowing the labourer to do the suturing.

The incident, sources said, happened a week ago. The video was uploaded on the social media sites by one of the hospital employees as a fallout of personal enmity with his colleagues, authorities said.