Stray dogs menace in MP hospital; Mauled body of 70-year-old patient found by sanitation workers

Bhopal: In the fifth such instance of healthcare horror in Madhya Pradesh, a mauled body of a patient, eaten by a dog, was found in the premises of a government hospital. 

The deceased was said to be missing from the hospital since last few days and what adds to the horror is that hospital authorities were unaware that she was missing from her yard until they found the remains of her dead body.

According to a TOI report, the stray dogs ate up the body of a 70-year-old woman, Bismillah Khan, who had went missing from the hospital on March 22. 

It was only after the sanitation workers of the hospital discovered an intolerable stench which led them to the site where the body was left in a mutilated condition.

According to an India.com source, "It was just a head and half a torso" and the hospital authorities identified the deceased from her purse and scraps of her clothes.

Civil surgeon Dr S Yadu said "The body was spotted by the cleaning staff owing to the intolerable stench emanating from it." 

"With the body being in extremely bad shape, its autopsy was conducted at the spot where it was found", he was quoted by New Indian Express.