Hospital Incorrectly Declared COVID-19 Patient Dead Twice, Family Claims
On 4/20/21 at 4:38 PM EDT
An outraged family has slammed a local hospital after they claimed that on two separate instances they received calls from management that their father had falsely been declared dead.
According to a report from NDTV, Gorelal Kori, 58, was admitted to Vidisha s Atal Bihari Medical College Hospital in Madhya Pradesh, India. He reportedly exhibited symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and was put on a ventilator to help him breathe on Wednesday. His family was told that his condition was critical.
But when the family came to the hospital on Thursday, they received contradictory accounts about how Kori was faring.
A 58-year-old suspected Covid-19 patient was wrongly declared dead twice by authorities earlier this week at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district. The second time the patient's family had even prepared for his funeral.
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A nurse first declared the patient dead before being tried and revived by doctors.
Bhopal:
A 58-year-old suspected Kovid-19 patient was wrongly declared dead by authorities earlier this week at a hospital in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh. The second time the patient’s family also prepared for her funeral, only to be accepted by the hospital authorities shortly after.
Gorelal Kori was admitted to the Atal Bihari Medical College Hospital in Vidisha on Monday in critical condition. He was placed on ventilator on Wednesday.
The patient’s son Kailash Kori said, “The next day they called me to the hospital saying that their condition is critical. After I arrived they said that they could not save her. The nurse later told that she was breathing again.” was.”
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Gorelal Kori s son Kailash claimed he was told on Thursday morning by a hospital staff that his father had died, but was later informed that he was alive.
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BHOPAL: A 58-year-old suspected Covid patient was declared dead twice by the staff of a government medical college in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, though he was alive. Gorelal Kori was admitted to Atal Bihari Medical College Hospital in a critical condition on April 12.
His son Kailash Kori claimed he was told on Thursday morning by a hospital staff that his father had died, but was later informed that he was alive.