Dead man brought for autopsy shows signs of life

Ranchi: A man who had “died” after getting electrocuted reportedly came alive at hospital when his body was brought for autopsy on Tuesday morning. The man’s family said the deceased collapsed again soon after and dies.
Jeetendra Oraon, a resident of Kharta village under Kairo police station limits in Lohardaga district, was brought to a community health center (CHC) in Chanho block around 7:30am after he came in contact with a high-tension overhead electrical wire while he dismantling a tent at his village.
The doctors at the CHC pronounce him dead on arrival and handed over the body to Chanho police, who then brought the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) in Ranchi, 45 km from his village, for autopsy.
The deceased’s younger brother, Sikandar Oraon, who accompanied the police to Rims, said, “We left the CHC at 11am and reached Rims at 1pm. While the technicians carried my brother on a trolley for autopsy, the staff said he was alive and asked for him to be shifted to the hospital's central emergency ward. However, soon after he was shifted, doctors at the emergency said he had died. They also told me that my brother could have been saved if he was brought in a little earlier."
Officials at CHC Rims however dismissed the family’s claims. Dr Namita Topno, who was at the CHC when the man was brought, said, "The family said that the man was electrocuted, but there were no mark on his body to suggest that that was the case. He had no pulse and was not breathing when he was brought here," Topno told TOI. Rims director Dr DK Singh said: "We have no information about any such incident."