more-inA labourer was forced to carry the body of his 15-year-old son on his shoulders after he was allegedly denied help by the doctors at a government hospital here on Monday. The incident brought back memories of Odisha’s Dana Majhi, who was was allegedly denied a hearse by a hospital and carried his wife’s body on his back last year. “No one told me that I was entitled to an ambulance to take my son’s body back,” the grieving father said. ‘Brought dead’Chief Medical Officer of Etawah, Rajeev Yadav, however, said the boy was brought dead to the hospital. It said the parents of the boy had taken the body without the mandatory autopsy.

Source: The Hindu May 02, 2017 16:52 UTC