Covid vicitms’ bodies swapped at Amritsar GMC

Tribune News Service

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Amritsar, July 18

In a major goof-up, officials of the Government Medical College (GMC) here sent a wrong body of a Covid victim to a family in Hoshiarpur on Saturday. The matter came to light when the family members of Pritam Singh (92) from Hoshiarpur, who died of Covid at the hospital here, insisted on seeing the victim’s face before the cremation.

They were, however, shocked to find that that the body sent by the Health Department, wrapped in a PPE kit as per the protocol, was actually of a woman. Sources at the college said a 37-year-old Amritsar resident, Padma, and Pritam Singh, both died last evening. Due to wrong marking on the bodies, the body of Pritam Singh was sent to Padma’s family for cremation. As the covering of Covid victims was not allowed to be opened, the family of Padma cremated the body of Pritam Singh.