Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow district mentioned Sunday they’re investigating allegations that the physique of a new child was mutilated by a stray canine at a authorities hospital.
Hospital in-charge Dr H R Verma mentioned a postmortem was performed, and {that a} preliminary report advised that the new child was delivered prematurely.
Hospital authorities claimed that the new child was probably a stillbirth that came about within the hospital toilet. Verma mentioned an adolescent, who had been admitted to the hospital on Friday morning with complaints of belly ache, was seen getting into the lavatory and later leaving the hospital.
The stray canine probably took the physique from the lavatory earlier than it was recovered by a safety guard, authorities mentioned.
“We performed the postmortem on Saturday morning, and its report is awaited. A preliminary report has mentioned the supply was untimely. The physique has been positioned within the mortuary. Police have begun a probe into this incident, and we are going to present all of the CCTV footage to assist them,” Dr Verma mentioned.
Mhow police station in-charge Rahul Sharma mentioned, “The hospital authorities have given the CCTV footage together with particulars the (teenage) woman furnished on the time of admission.”
Hospital officers conceded that each one three hospital gates had been open at night time, which probably allowed stray canine to enter, significantly by means of a gate close to the storeroom. Dr Verma mentioned, “There was some negligence on the a part of the guard. Now we have ordered that each one gates be locked at night time and safety personnel be posted on the fundamental entrance to watch motion and stop animals from getting into.”