MUMBAI, India - A man, presumed dead and brought to a mortuary in the Indian
city of Mumbai on Sunday, gave the facility’s staff a considerable shock when
he woke up a few minutes before they were about to conduct a postmortem
examination.
The 50-year-old homeless man was declared dead by a doctor
on Sunday afternoon and sent immediately to the morgue despite rules that
stipulate a two-hour waiting period after death, the BBC reported.
The head of Mumbai’s Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital,
Dr. Suleiman Merchant, told reporters on Monday that doctors didn’t detect a
pulse or heartbeat on the man, whom doctors named only as Prakash.
His face was
also reportedly covered in maggots, and local media reported that he was found
lying at a bus stop.
His face was
also reportedly covered in maggots, and local media reported that he was found
lying at a bus stop.
“Maggots eat human tissues. Usually dead bodies have
maggots,” Merchant said. “He must have been lying around for at least six or
seven days.”
Prakash is currently stable and is undergoing treatment for
malnourishment and an ear infection at the hospital’s ICU.
Source: BBC
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