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Covid victim’s body left in open at graveyard in Tiruppur
In a blatant act of negligence, health workers of a private hospital and relatives of a Covid victim left his body in the open overnight at a graveyard in Kunnathur recently.
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TIRUPPUR: In a blatant act of negligence, health workers of a private hospital and relatives of a Covid victim left his body in the open overnight at a graveyard in Kunnathur recently. Villagers were shocked after finding the victim’s body lying unattended.
The 40-year-old victim, who hails from Velliraveli village in Kunnathur near Uthukuli, died on his way to Perundurai Medical College Hospital in Erode, following a referral by a private hospital in Kunnathur. After being declared dead on arrival in the wee hours of Sunday, the victim’s brother, who was the only attendant, left the body at the graveyard in Velliravelli village, with the help of health workers, as the body could n