The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has registered a case in connection with a recent mix-up of two women’s bodies at Government General Hospital here. The commission has sought explanations from the Director of Health Services and the District Collector about the incident, which had anguished a tribal family from Attappady.
The body of a tribeswoman from Attappady brought to District Hospital for postmortem was mixed up with a COVID-19 victim’s body and handed over to its relatives. The kin of the woman who died of COVID-19 cremated the tribeswoman’s body as per the pandemic protocol.
