UP to probe ’donation’ of dead bodies to medical college from Dera

Mangalore Today News Network

Lucknow,Sep 09, 2017 : Uttar Pradesh government would conduct a high-level probe into reports that a private medical college had received 14 dead bodies from Dera Sachha Sauda without proper documents.

 

’’It is a serious issue...we will probe the matter thoroughly and ensure stern punishment to the guilty,’’ UP health minister Siddharth Nath Singh said here on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters Singh said that the government had already taken cognisance of the report.

The medical college management, however, rejected the allegations and claimed that all formalities had been completed before accepting the bodies. Fourteen dead bodies had been sent from Dera to the college between the month of January and August this year, according to the reports.

’’The dead bodies had been donated to the medical college....we have the relevant documents to show the same,’’ claimed a senior functionary of the college on Saturday.

He also claimed that every dead body had a photostat copy of its identity besides an affidavit by a close relative stating that it was being donated to the college.

Sources said that the local police had seized documents from the medical college and were examining them. A police team had reached the medical college office on Friday evening soon after reports to this effect were circulated in the local media in Sirsa in Haryana.

Sources also said that prima facie it appeared that necessary formalities had been completed.

Incidentally, the dead bodies had been donated to the medical college after the Medical Council of India (MCI) had denied recognition to the college after it found that there was only one human body with the anatomy department.


courtesy:DNHS