Ahmedabad: Family takes body away from crematorium

AHMEDABAD: Family of a patient who died of Covid-19 infection at a private hospital in Navrangpura fled with his body on Monday evening. An FIR in this connection has been filed with Ellisbridge police.
Nodal officer of Sushrusha Hospital in Navrangpura, Purvan Patel said that a patient from Banswara, Ranchhod Chauhan, 65, was admitted to the Covid-19 hospital on September 26.
On Monday at around 11am, his condition worsened, and he died. After this, Patel informed officers of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to monitor the cremation of the man and told the deceased’s family members to reach a crematorium near VS Hospital in the Ellisbridge area.
At around 6pm, his body was sent to the crematorium as his family members reached there. After a while, Patel called up staff of the crematorium to know if the cremation was performed. Then, he came to know that he was not cremated there.
Patel enquired with the dead body van driver who told him that he had put the body in the parking of the crematorium. The family members of the deceased had already brought another ambulance there in which they took away the body.
Patel tried up reaching the deceased’s son, Mahendra, but his phone was switched off. Later, the nodal officer approached Ellisbridge police and filed a complaint for alleged attempt to spread infection of the deadly disease.
Sources in police said that the family might have taken the body to their native place but they put life of others in risk as they carried the body of a corona-infected person.