Mysuru: A tragic incident of a dead body of a new born being recovered from toilet of Cheluvamba Hospital here has raised several questions, answers for which are yet to be found.
On Tuesday night, January 19, a dead body of a new born was found in the toilet of ward no-10 of the hospital and now a tug-of-war has begun over the same issue.
While the hospital authorities have been pointing finger at a specific woman stating that the dead child belongs to her, a raged family members of the woman backed by a huge crowd hailing from the woman’s village went to the extent of staging stir outside jurisdictional police station keeping the dead body of her own child to prove the point that the child found in the toilet does not belong to the said woman.
After the dead body of the child was spotted in the hospital, the staff nurse and others stated that the child belongs to one Roopa from Krishnapura in Nanjangudu.
But, Roopa refuted the charges stating that her child had died in her womb and hence on Sunday evening she had to undergo a surgery to bring out the corpse of the child. The dead body, as per Roopa was cremated in her native place on Monday evening and hence the child found in the hospital toilet was not her’s.
When the issue went out of control, cops attached to Devaraj Police station interrogated Roopa’s husband Murthy and even got the dead body of their child exhumed from their land to cross verify if the couple was speaking the truth or was making false claims.
Raged by this move, Roopa, her husband, their relatives and several villagers took the dead body of the child and staged a stir outside the police station.
After all the episodes the mystery of the dead child found in the hospital toilet still remains unanswered.
However, locals residents here say that Cheluvamba hospital has earned notoriety due to repeated incidents of carelessness resulting in exchanging of new born and infants going missing.
