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NRI kin return for woman’s final rites, find body ‘decomposed’ at morgue
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NRI kin return for woman’s final rites, find body ‘decomposed’ at morgue

The Indian Express·Express News Service·about 1 month ago
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A senior police official of Vadodara city told this newspaper that a formal complaint was awaited in the matter from the hospital or the family, in order to begin the probe. Vadodara’s SSG hospital witnessed scenes of chaos early Wednesday morning as a clash broke out at its morgue wing when relatives of a deceased woman arrived to claim her body—only to find it in a severely decomposed state. The shock quickly gave way to anger, and relatives allegedly attacked doctors on duty, alleging that the body had been “shifted” without informing the family and had decomposed due to negligence. SSG hospital stated that the technical malfunction of the cold room unit led to the decomposition. Officials of the hospital said around 8.30 am on Wednesday, when the family of Ranjan Vyas arrived to claim her body from the SSG morgue, where it had been kept following her demise on Monday.…

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