Patient's families protest in a hospital of West Bengal's Birbhum district


A Hospital in West Bengal’s Birbhum district saw protests by patients' family members yesterday as foul odour from the morgue kept getting worse.

 


 It due to the problematic air conditioner of Bolpur Sub-Divisional Hospital’s morgue . According to the sources said 13 bodies were rotting there.

 The stench is not only unbearable but a risk to patients and all those who visit the hospital , that's why patient party of the hospital staged a protest against this.

According to the patient's party ,no action has been taken even after  doctors and other health workers, complained about the stink.

Now as It has come to light that hospital authorities have informed police about the incident and tried fixing the morgue’s air conditioner by contacting the service centres though they said it will not be able to work unless the bodies have been removed from the morgue.

 When several videos of decomposed bodies being loaded into a van in Garia area of Kolkata has gone viral ,it sparked a furore on social media and even prompted Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to tweet about the incident.

“Anguished at disposal of dead bodies. With heartless indescribable insensitivity. Not sharing videos due to sensitivity. In our society dead body is accorded highest respect-rituals are performed as per tradition,” he said.

 The West Bengal Health Department and Kolkata Police have dismissed the viral video as fake. At the same time, residents from the area said they witnessed around 13-14 dead bodies being loaded in a van.

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