MAN ALIVE IN ICU AFTER CREMATION

In a case of gross mis-management that has caused two families unnecessary grief, a civic-run COVID-19 hospital, Thane Global Impact Hub in Kalwa, handed a body on July 3 wrapped and taped in a PPE suit to a family saying their relative, Janardhan Sonawane, 67, had died. However, a few days later, the family got to know that Sonawane is alive and the body they cremated was of Bhalchandra Gaikwad, 71.

Son of Janardhan Sonawane, Sandeep Sonawane said, ‘On July 6, I got a call from the hospital telling me ‘your father is alive’. I thought somebody was playing a prank on me. I disconnected the call’