An 82-year-old woman, who was missing for eight days from a government-run hospital at Jalgaon in Maharashtra, was found dead inside a toil...
An 82-year-old woman, who was missing for eight days from a government-run hospital at Jalgaon in Maharashtra, was found dead inside a toilet of the facility on Wednesday, PTI reported.
The woman, who lived with her daughter-in-law in Bhusawal city, had tested positive for the coronavirus on May 27. She was first admitted to another hospital before she was shifted to the Jalgaon Civil Hospital on June 1.
Akbar Patel, senior inspector at the Zilla Peth police station, told IANS that hospital authorities and the family informed the police that she was untraceable since June 2. “Thereafter, we made full inquiries in Bhusaval, checked all patient registers in the presence of the relatives, scanned CCTV footage etc. and then registered the complaint on June 6,” Patel added.
The elderly woman was discovered after patients in the hospital complained of foul smell from the toilet. “The dysfunctional CCTV cameras posed more difficulties for the police,” an unidentified official of the Jalgaon Civil Hospital told the news agency. “It was due to the foul odour emanating from ward 7 that led to the octogenarian woman patient’s body being traced in one of the toilets. Her body was partially decomposed when recovered.”
This is the second recorded case...
