Civil Surgeon: ASI died of pneumonia

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, June 14

Civil Surgeon (CS) Anoop Kumar claimed on Sunday that ASI Sukhdial Singh died of pneumonia not Covid-19. The ASI died on Friday night and the body was cremated on Saturday under the Covid-19 protocols. The CS gave information to mediapersons on Saturday that the ASI died of Covid. The Health Department, by adopting the protocol, sent its employees with PPE kits to cremate him at Mughalwal, his native village in the Patti subdivision.

The deceased was admitted to the local Civil Hospital on June 11 and the authorities after getting his samples to be tested for Covid referred him to the Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital, Amritsar, for treatment.

The Amritsar authorities too took his samples for testing.

The CS said the report of his first sample taken by the local authorities was reported positive. Later, after his death it was declared negative. The report of the GMCH, Amritsar, too came negative. In spite of all this, the body was cremated under the Covid-19 protocols, under the supervision of the Health Department. In the present circumstances, the family of the deceased would be deprived of benefits of the Covid death case, which includes an insurance of Rs 50 lakh and other benefits.