Dogs eat woman's body at mortuary, three sacked

In a shocking incident reflecting gross negligence, stray dogs ate away parts of a woman's body, which had been kept at the mortuary in a government hospital in the state capital on Sunday.
 
Taking a serious view of the incident, the authorities sacked three employees of the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and ordered a probe, according to the sources here.
 
Sources said that the dogs had eaten away almost the entire face of the woman along with one of the eyes.
 
The woman, a resident of Chinhat area on the outskirts of the state capital, had been admitted to the hospital in a serious condition on Saturday evening. The woman had consumed some poisonous substance following a family feud. She died late in the night and her body was kept at the mortuary.
 
The family members were shocked to see the condition of the body, when they reached the mortuary on Sunday morning to take the body for cremation.
 
''Almost the entire face was eaten away...one of the eyes was also missing....stains of blood was seen on the floor outside the mortuary...the marks of dogs' paws were clearly visible,'' said one of the family members.
 
The eye witnesses said that a portion of a channel gate had been left opened at night as a result of which the dogs entered the mortuary. The dead body had also been dragged, sources said.
 
The kin of the woman also held a demonstration at the hospital in protest against the shocking incident.
 
The hospital administration later terminated the services of a security supervisor, guard and a ward boy on charges of negligence. A probe was also ordered into the incident, sources said.
 
A case would be lodged against the guilty persons, the officials said.