Jalgaon hospital Dean suspended after COVID-19 patient’s body found in toilet
   Date :12-Jun-2020

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MUMBAI :
 
CRACKING the whip, the Maharashtra Government on Thursday suspended the Dean and five others after the horrifying incident of a “missing” 82-year old woman COVID-19 patient being found dead in a toilet of the Jalgaon Civil Hospital.Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that besides Dean B R Khaire, a superintendent, the attached medical college principal, nurse and security person were slapped with suspension orders. The developments came a day after the shocking recovery of the dead body of the 82-year old woman being found from the toilet of the same hospital on Wednesday, as reported by IANS. Zillapeth Police Station’s Senior Police Inspector Akbar Patel said that the Jalgaon Civil Hospital authorities and the family had informed the police that she was “missing” on June 2.
 
Thereafter, the police made full inquiries in her home-town Bhusaval, checked all patient registers in the presence of the relatives, scanned CCTV footage, etc and then registered the complaint on June 6, Patel told IANS on Wednesday. The woman had tested COVID-19 positive on May 27 and had been admitted to another hospital before she was shifted to the JCH and police teams were sent there to investigate. The JCH authorities confirmed that she was seen in the ward till June 2 after which the whereabouts of the woman were not known.
 
It was on Wednesday morning when some people reported a foul smell emanating from one of the toilets in the hospital and the missing woman’s body was found there. The woman’s daughter-in-law had died while waiting for ICU bed in the hospital on May 31. District Collector Avinash Dhakane said that at least three other coronavirus patients had died at the Jalgaon District Civil Hospital after fainting while walking to the toilet unassisted. The woman’s grandson works in a private company in Pune. His father is recovering from COVID-19 at a private hospital in Nashik. The young man’s parents and his grandmother who lived in Bhusaval tested positive for virus in the last week of May. He himself could not go and meet them as his wife is nine months pregnant, he said.