One wonders if matters can get any worse for the much abused and vilified girl child what with staff members of government hospitals in the national capital apportioning unto themselves the right to dispose of the bodies of newly born baby girls (infants) in any manner they deem fit.......
Things came to a head when the mortal remains of a baby girl which should have rightfully been preserved in the mortuary of the Maata Chanan Devi Hospital were instead found unceremoniously dumped in a bio-waste truck stationed just outside it's main gate on Tuesday morning.......
According to sources close to the bereaved family as well as police sources, the now deceased infant was born on Sunday morning at the Khanna Nursing Home and was subsequently brought by the hapless parents to the above mentioned hospital when her health abruptly started deteriorating on Sunday evening.......
Despite the best efforts of the doctors stationed within the Delhi government hospital, the girl child passed away at around 2 a.m. on Monday morning and the harrowing parents were asked to collect the mortal remains of their child after 9 am on the same morning from the hospital's morgue......
To the parent's consternation and dismay, the morgue staff outrightly denied having received the body of the infant when the parents turned up to claim the same a little after 9 am and crudely asked the deeply perturbed parents to look for the body of their child elsewhere.......
The hapless and sorrowing parents searched high and low through the length and breadth of the sprawling hospital premises but could not retrieve their deceased child's remains from any obscure place within the hospital premises before happening upon the waste disposal truck stationed outside the hospital's main gate......
A passerby brought to their notice the dismal fact that he had spotted the body of a child lying atop a waste heap in the truck and it was then that the distraught parents found and claimed the lifeless body as their very own moments before the truck that had finished receiving it's due load of bio waste from the hospital was about to proceed with the same.......
Alleging utter callousness and criminal negligence on the part of the hospital authorities the parents of the infants disclosed that they had dished out an amount of Rs. 1,500/- and paid the same to a morgue attendant for the express purpose of keeping the body safe until the family members came to claim the same........
"Our heavenly child breathed her last at around 2 am on Monday morning and we duly paid the amount demanded by the mortuary staff to preserve her body without any prevarication and still discovered her body lying atop a heap of hazardous wastes in a bio-waste truck a grieving relative of the infant pointed out"........
On their part the Delhi police authorities have thus far not launched a case against the accused morgue staff ,members but instead launched a detaiIed investigation into the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the child's body within a bio-disposal truck.........
"We have duly obtained the CCTV footage of operations within the hospital between/for the said period and are minutely examining the same to establish the identity of the culprit beyond all reasonable doubt", police sources said.......
And so the indifference, apathy, cruelty and criminal negligence continues unabated despite a new and supposedly responsive government having assumed the reins of power in the national capital a short while back.......
Things came to a head when the mortal remains of a baby girl which should have rightfully been preserved in the mortuary of the Maata Chanan Devi Hospital were instead found unceremoniously dumped in a bio-waste truck stationed just outside it's main gate on Tuesday morning.......
According to sources close to the bereaved family as well as police sources, the now deceased infant was born on Sunday morning at the Khanna Nursing Home and was subsequently brought by the hapless parents to the above mentioned hospital when her health abruptly started deteriorating on Sunday evening.......
Despite the best efforts of the doctors stationed within the Delhi government hospital, the girl child passed away at around 2 a.m. on Monday morning and the harrowing parents were asked to collect the mortal remains of their child after 9 am on the same morning from the hospital's morgue......
To the parent's consternation and dismay, the morgue staff outrightly denied having received the body of the infant when the parents turned up to claim the same a little after 9 am and crudely asked the deeply perturbed parents to look for the body of their child elsewhere.......
The hapless and sorrowing parents searched high and low through the length and breadth of the sprawling hospital premises but could not retrieve their deceased child's remains from any obscure place within the hospital premises before happening upon the waste disposal truck stationed outside the hospital's main gate......
A passerby brought to their notice the dismal fact that he had spotted the body of a child lying atop a waste heap in the truck and it was then that the distraught parents found and claimed the lifeless body as their very own moments before the truck that had finished receiving it's due load of bio waste from the hospital was about to proceed with the same.......
Alleging utter callousness and criminal negligence on the part of the hospital authorities the parents of the infants disclosed that they had dished out an amount of Rs. 1,500/- and paid the same to a morgue attendant for the express purpose of keeping the body safe until the family members came to claim the same........
"Our heavenly child breathed her last at around 2 am on Monday morning and we duly paid the amount demanded by the mortuary staff to preserve her body without any prevarication and still discovered her body lying atop a heap of hazardous wastes in a bio-waste truck a grieving relative of the infant pointed out"........
On their part the Delhi police authorities have thus far not launched a case against the accused morgue staff ,members but instead launched a detaiIed investigation into the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the child's body within a bio-disposal truck.........
"We have duly obtained the CCTV footage of operations within the hospital between/for the said period and are minutely examining the same to establish the identity of the culprit beyond all reasonable doubt", police sources said.......
And so the indifference, apathy, cruelty and criminal negligence continues unabated despite a new and supposedly responsive government having assumed the reins of power in the national capital a short while back.......
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