Woman declared ‘dead’ due to Covid-19 by medical college found alive in Jhansi

JHANSI: In a case of mistaken identity, a 65-year-old woman, who was declared dead due to Covid on Friday by Jhansi medical college authorities, came out to be alive on Saturday.
According to reports, the woman Rajkumari Gupta, (65) with an identification number JHAN0029658574 was declared dead on Friday by the hospital authorities due to Covid. As per the declaration, she was admitted to the hospital on April 23 and died on the same day.She was having a sore throat, fever and cough with breathing problems.
The matter came to light on Saturday after some people contacted her relatives at her house. Later, a video clip also went viral in which Rajkumari was seen standing in the balcony of her house saying that she had recovered a week ago and was quite fit.
When the TOI contacted the principal of the Jhansi medical college Dr Narendra Singh Sengar, he said that it was a matter of mistaken identity as a woman of similar name had died of Covid on late Thursday night. “The family members of the deceased entered the hospital’s ICU ward and started creating ruckus. They even manhandled the medical staff present at that time for which an FIR had been lodged. During this scuffle, the files got mingled which created this confusion”, he said.
Meanwhile, six people died due to Covid while 834 new patients were reported in the district on Saturday. With this the total positive count has gone up to 21437 with 7136 active positive cases. Out of them, 603 are symptomatic.
The continuous surge in the number of patients is posing a big challenge to the administration to tackle the situation amid scarcity of oxygen and beds.
Those who succumbed include three women aged 69, 67, 45, years and three men aged 56, 59, 65 years. All of them were admitted in different hospitals with Covid like symptoms.