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Bodies rot as KGMU mortuary is out of order PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Friday, 27 May 2005
Neha Agrawal

Lucknow, India May 25: For the last one week the mortuary of the King George Medical University, Balrampur, is out of order. The hospital, which has a full-fledged forensic department, receives about 12 to 15 bodies a day. Four to five of them pertain to medico-legal cases and needs post-mortem.

Currenly, the bodies are being kept in the open. Over the last week, three bodies have decayed entirely. The high summer only speeds up the process of decay.

The hospital authorities, who jointly hold the charge of the maintaining the mortuary with four other organisations, are busy with a tussle. Repairing the freezer seems the last thing on anyone’s mind.

Along with KGMU, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Special Superintendent of Police are responsible for the mortuary.

The mortuary pharmacist, D K Verma is one of the people suffering the effects of the out-of-order freezer.

‘‘The outside temperature is very high now. The bodies start decomposing within 24 hours,’’ he said. The odour makes for inhuman working conditions. Plus, the possibility of catching infections becomes higher for doctors who have to conduct postmortems and the other staff who have to work in the vicinity.

The Newsline team paid a visit to the mortuary to find ten bodies kept on the floor, covered with sheets. The smell made it difficult to get past the doorway. Even people standing outside the building could be seen covering their noses.

Asked who’s responsible for repair of the freezer, Verma said: ‘‘This is all legal work and is done for the police department. So the SSP should take care of this.’’ The SSP, however, had denied access to the body chamber to keep the bodies, he said.

The Chief Medical Superintendent KGMU, Professsor Rama Kant had an excuse ready. ‘‘The mortuary is under the charge of different organisations. As such, no one is willing to take the responsibility,’’ he said. ‘‘We have prepared all letters regarding the functioning of the equipment, but finance is the problem,’’ he elucidated.

CMO J P Yadav shifts the blame on KGMU. ‘‘We only have to provide the doctors on time. But the repair and maintenance of the building and the facilities should be to taken up by KGMU.’’

And SSP Navniet Sekera has no idea about the fault.

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=130940
 
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