NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, APRIL 6
If you thought that hospitals are only treating patients and taking care of their loved ones by providing boarding and lodging facilities amidst the lockdown. Change your perception. A kidney patient from Bihar, who was undergoing treatment at Kidney Hospital, which is functioning with 50 percent of the staff, died here on Monday. Since there is no rail, air, surface transport owing to lockdown, the hospital authorities have made all arrangements to take the body by road for performing his last rites with dignity.
Amid lockdown to check the spread of COVID-19, the Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre (IKDRC) or Kidney Hospital in Ahmedabad made special arrangements to send the dead body of a patient to Bihar by road on Monday, says a hospital release.
The patient Prabhas Kumar Sah, 47 died during treatment on Monday due to post-renal transplant complications with graft dysfunction, pneumonia, and sudden cardiac arrest. He was admitted to hospital last month and was undergoing treatment in the Nephrology department of the institute.
Special provisions were made to transport the dead body after his relatives wanted to cremate the deceased in his native town of Barsoi Bazar in Kathihar district of Bihar.
IKDRC issued requisite papers to transport the dead body by road in an ambulance and also done an arrangement to help the relatives to ensure a hassle-free journey to take the deceased body to the destination.
