<p>In a bizarre incident, a 40-year-old man was kept in a mortuary freezer for almost seven hours before he was taken out alive.</p>.<p>According to reports, Srikesh Kumar, an electrician, was hit by a speeding motorbike following which he was taken to the district hospital on Thursday night. The doctors had declared him dead.</p>.<p>The following day, the hospital staff put the body in the freezer.</p>.<p>Nearly seven hours later, when a 'panchnama' or document, signed by family members after identifying the body and agreeing to an autopsy - was to be filed by the police, Kumar's sister-in-law Madhu Bala noticed that he was showing signs of movement.</p>.<p>In a video that went viral, Bala can be heard saying: "He's not at all dead. How did this happen? Look, he wants to say something, he is breathing."</p>.<p>Moradabad's chief medical superintendent Dr Shiv Singh, said: "The emergency medical officer had seen the patient at 3 am and there was no heartbeat. He had examined the man multiple times. Thereafter, he was declared dead but, in the morning, a police team and his family found him alive. A probe has been ordered. Our priority is now to save his life."</p>.<p>Singh said it was one of those "rarest of rare cases... We can't call it negligence".</p>.<p>Kumar is now undergoing treatment at a health centre in Meerut where his condition has improved.</p>.<p>According to his sister-in-law, "he is yet to regain consciousness".</p>.<p>"We will lodge a complaint against the doctors for negligence as they almost killed Srikesh by putting him in a freezer," she added.</p>
<p>In a bizarre incident, a 40-year-old man was kept in a mortuary freezer for almost seven hours before he was taken out alive.</p>.<p>According to reports, Srikesh Kumar, an electrician, was hit by a speeding motorbike following which he was taken to the district hospital on Thursday night. The doctors had declared him dead.</p>.<p>The following day, the hospital staff put the body in the freezer.</p>.<p>Nearly seven hours later, when a 'panchnama' or document, signed by family members after identifying the body and agreeing to an autopsy - was to be filed by the police, Kumar's sister-in-law Madhu Bala noticed that he was showing signs of movement.</p>.<p>In a video that went viral, Bala can be heard saying: "He's not at all dead. How did this happen? Look, he wants to say something, he is breathing."</p>.<p>Moradabad's chief medical superintendent Dr Shiv Singh, said: "The emergency medical officer had seen the patient at 3 am and there was no heartbeat. He had examined the man multiple times. Thereafter, he was declared dead but, in the morning, a police team and his family found him alive. A probe has been ordered. Our priority is now to save his life."</p>.<p>Singh said it was one of those "rarest of rare cases... We can't call it negligence".</p>.<p>Kumar is now undergoing treatment at a health centre in Meerut where his condition has improved.</p>.<p>According to his sister-in-law, "he is yet to regain consciousness".</p>.<p>"We will lodge a complaint against the doctors for negligence as they almost killed Srikesh by putting him in a freezer," she added.</p>