Family alleges organ theft, police exhume body of accident victim in Odisha

According to police, the deceased is identified arsenic 42-year-old Babula Diggal, a autochthonal of Tikarbaju colony nether Baliguda Police Station area.

Babula was travelling connected a motorcycle with his wife and 18-year-old lad Isaac on October 13 erstwhile they met with an mishap and sustained terrible injuries. His household members archetypal rushed him to the Baliguda infirmary and aboriginal moved him to the aesculapian assemblage astatine Berhampur and AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, wherever helium couldn’t get admission. On October 15, helium was admitted to a backstage infirmary successful Cuttack, wherever helium died a time later.

While speaking to reporters, Issac, the lad of the deceased, said the infirmary authorities successful Cuttack asked them to deposit Rs 1 lakh for surgery, which was conducted astatine astir 3 americium connected October 16.

“After the surgery, the infirmary authorities informed america that the country was palmy and the diligent volition retrieve soon. However, astatine astir 7 p.m. connected October 16, the infirmary authorities informed america astir the patient’s death,” said the lad of the deceased.

According to him, the infirmary authorities arranged an ambulance and asked the household members of the deceased to instrumentality the body. The infirmary authorities didn’t adjacent behaviour the post-mortem earlier handing it implicit to the household members, helium went connected to allege.

“On the mode to our village, we recovered a chopped people connected the tummy of my begetter adjacent though helium had sustained injuries connected the head. We fishy the infirmary authorities person removed organs,” said Issac.

On their part, authorities astatine the Cuttack infirmary person denied allegations, claiming that the country was done according to aesculapian norms.

“Decompressive craniectomy was conducted by the neurosurgeon of the hospital. It’s a surgical process that involves removing portion of the skull and storing it wrong the tummy for astir six months till the diligent afloat recovers. The household members were briefed astir the surgical process by the doctors,” said a infirmary official.

On Thursday evening, household members of the deceased lodged a ailment with the Baliguda constabulary presumption pursuing which the constabulary initiated a probe.

“We exhumed the assemblage successful beingness of magistrates and conducted the post-mortem. The full process was video-graphed. Although the post-mortem study is awaited, the doctors didn’t find thing suspicious,” Sushant Sahu, inspector-in-charge (IIC) of Baliguda constabulary presumption told The Indian Express.

Expressing interest implicit the incident, state’s wellness and household payment curate Mukesh Mahaling said helium has spoken to the constabulary commissioner to behaviour a thorough probe into the matter. The authorities wellness section has ordered an enquiry to ascertain whether the infirmary authorities person followed owed process.