Maha: YCM Hospital, doctors booked over swapping of dead bodies
Pune: Doctors and staff members at the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial (YCM) Hospital were booked by the Pimpri police after the hospital mixed up the corpses of two women and handed them over to different families.
On Tuesday night, the bodies of two women were taken to the mortuary of the YCM hospital. One of them was a 60-year-old woman who had passed away after getting injured in a wall collapse whereas the other was a 57-year-old woman who had passed away due to cancer.
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The body of the 60-year-old woman was handed over to the family of the 57-year-old woman after the latter came to take her body on Wednesday morning. The error came to the fore when the family of the 60-year-old woman came to take the body.
Meanwhile, the other family had already performed the last rites of the 60-year-old woman thinking it to be their family member. When the family came to know about the mix-up, they also reportedly vandalized the cabin of YCM Hospital Dean Dr. Rajendra Wabale, reports the Indian Express.
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