Boy declared dead after ‘family ran out of money’, wakes up ahead of burial

Lucknow | Tuesday | 2nd July, 2019

Summary:

In a shocking case of negligence, doctors declared a 20-year-old boy dead after 10 days of treatment and handed over the body to the family to perform last rites. The bewildered family rushed they boy – identified as Mohammad Furqan - to a hospital where he has been put on a ventilator. After days of treatment, doctors declared him dead on Monday and the body was sent to his home in an ambulance. "We had paid Rs 7 lakh to the private hospital earlier and when we told them that we had run out of money, they had declared Furqan dead on Monday," Irfan added. Earlier, a similar incident was reported from Madhya Pradesh where a septuagenarian was declared dead by doctors was found alive in the morgue the next morning..