Indian man awakes on funeral pyre

An Indian man awoke on a funeral pyre moments earlier than it was to be set on fireplace after a physician skipped a postmortem, medical officers mentioned Saturday.

Rohitash Kumar, 25, who had talking and listening to difficulties, had fallen sick and was taken to a hospital in Jhunjhunu within the western state of Rajasthan on Thursday.

Indian media reported he had had an epileptic seizure, and a physician declared him lifeless on arrival on the hospital.

However as an alternative of the required postmortem to determine the reason for loss of life, medical doctors despatched him to the mortuary, after which to be burned in accordance with Hindu rites.

D. Singh, chief medical officer of the hospital, informed AFP that a physician had “ready the postmortem report with out really doing the postmortem, and the physique was then despatched for cremation”.

Singh mentioned that “shortly earlier than the pyre was to be lit, Rohitash’s physique began actions”, including that “he was alive and was respiratory”.

Kumar was rushed to hospital for a second time, however was confirmed lifeless on Friday throughout therapy.

Authorities have suspended the providers of three medical doctors and the police have launched an investigation.

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