Witnesses in India discovered that a 25-year-old man who was thought to be dead and about to be cremated this week was actually still alive, reports say.
Rohitash Kumar, a 25-year-old man who was deaf and mute, was pronounced dead at a hospital in the state of Rajasthan without a post-mortem examination, according to The Times of India.
After it was realized that Kumar was alive during his cremation on Thursday, his family took him back to the hospital where he later passed away early Friday morning.
A crematorium in India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Three doctors who were involved in declaring Kumar dead at the Bhagwan Das Khetan district hospital have been suspended, as per the newspaper.
Kumar had experienced an epileptic seizure and was pronounced dead when he flatlined while doctors were performing CPR on him, as reported by the Daily Mail, citing the AFP news service.
Relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, in 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)
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“The situation was nothing short of a miracle,” a witness at the funeral pyre told local news outlet ETV Bharat. “We all were in shock. He was declared dead, but there he was, breathing and alive.”Â
Ramavtar Meena, a government official in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, called the incident “serious negligence.”
The state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. (Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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“Action will be taken against those responsible. The working style of the doctors will also be thoroughly investigated,” he said.
Meena added that a committee had been formed to investigate the incident.
