Jalandhar: After a Jalandhar-based hospital interchanged the bodies of two Covid-19 patients and a family even cremated the body of a person unrelated to them, a case has been registered against the hospital. The goof up was discovered when the family of 78-year-old Tarsem Lal came to the hospital on Saturday to take his body and found that of an unrelated man instead.
They questioned hospital authorities and called the family of Jaspal Singh, who had also died of Covid-19. Jaspal’s son Parbhleen said they cremated the body only half an hour before receiving the call on Saturday evening.
He said they had not opened the body bag and did not come to know that it was not his father’s body. On Sunday, Prabhleen and his family cremated his father’s body.