This story is from May 18, 2021

Man takes away wife’s body from Covid ward in Beed

A 38-year old man, along with three of his relatives, has been booked by the Beed police for allegedly walking away his wife’s body from the Covid-19 ward of the civil hospital. He, however, brought the body back to the hospital within an hour after police warned him.
Man takes away wife’s body from Covid ward in Beed
The Covid centre in Beed from where the woman was taken away
AURANGABAD: A 38-year old man, along with three of his relatives, has been booked by the Beed police for allegedly walking away his wife’s body from the Covid-19 ward of the civil hospital. He, however, brought the body back to the hospital within an hour after police warned him.
“The woman, from Gevrai taluka, was admitted to the hospital on April 23. Her condition started deteriorating since the past couple of days and she died around 5 am on Monday,” additional civil surgeon Sukhdev Rathod TOI.

The official said the woman’s husband demanded that her body be handed over to the family for performing the last rites, but his was turned down citing the standard protocol.
“The man argued that his wife’s report came negative in the antigen test performed on Saturday and wanted to take the body to their home town. When his request was turned, the man quietly sneaked out of the hospital while the staff got busy in other duties,” said Rathod.
The hospital authorities realised about it only after the class IV employees reached ward number 5 to wrap up the body and take it to the morgue. The matter was brought to the notice of police, who contacted the man and told him to hand over the body back to the hospital.
Archana Pingle, a nurse working for the civil hospital, has lodged a complaint in this regard.
The man and three others were booked under IPC sections including disobeying order duly promulgated by authorities and unlawfully or negligently doing any act which is likely to spread the infection.
They have also been slapped with sections of The Epidemic Diseases Act.
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