Two staff suspended after hospital’s failure to help a man take his wife’s body to the hearse

Balakrushna Kanhar carried the corpse over two flights of stairs

Two employees at the Kandhamal district headquarters hospital in Odisha were placed under suspension after a man was forced to carry his wife’s body on his own without help from hospital staff. Balakrushna Kanhar, belonging to Kandh tribe of Motingia village under Phiringia Block, had admitted his wife to the hospital on June 29. She was suffering from severe anaemia and respiratory distress. She breathed her last on Thursday (July 1). When the man wanted his wife’s body to be carried up to the hearse, no one from the hospital came forward to help him. With much difficulty, Mr. Kanhar carried his wife’s body from the bed and went down the stairs from the female ward on the second floor. He found a stretcher on the ground floor and, after the placing the body, dragged it to the hearse. The vehicle driver too refused a helping hand to lift the body into the vehicle.