The boy made several rounds but was fobbed off each time
AGRA: A 16-year-old boy was forced to wait for 10 days to get his father’s body released from Aligarh’s Deendayal Hospital, where the latter was admitted as a Covid-suspect patient.
The hospital administration refused to hand over the body to the teenager, insisting that he is a minor. The boy had no one else in his family other than his father. He told this to the doctors and pleaded with them, but all in vain.
The boy made several rounds but was fobbed off each time. It was only after police intervened that he was able to secure his father’s body. The chief medical superintendent (CMS) of the hospital has been divested of his charge for failing to alert police on time. A probe has also been ordered.