A ghastly mix-up at a private hospital in Kanjirappally left two grieving families with wrong dead bodies, triggering an angry protest here on Thursday.
According to the Kanjirappally police, the mix up came to light when relatives of 86-year old Soshamma, who had died of a cardiac arrest, reached the Mary Queens Mission Hospital in Kanjirappally in the morning to take over the dead body. On realising that they had received the wrong corpse, the relatives informed the hospital about the blunder and asked to take it back.
Things, however, went for a toss when the hospital informed the woman’s relatives that Soshamma’s dead body had been mistakenly handed over to the relatives of one Kamalakshiyamma from Chirakkadavu. The situation worsened after it was known that the relatives of Kamalakshiyamma had already cremated Soshamma’s dead body by placing it on the pyre. The irate relatives erupted into a protest, alleging gross negligence by the hospital authority.
