The 45-year-old was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at a bus station.
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Mortuary staff in Mumbai were given a big surprise when a man woke up shortly before a post-mortem examination.
In a freaky incident, a man declared dead by a hospital’s officials “came alive” moments before his autopsy in Mumbai. He immediately declared the man dead after checking his pulse and ordered him to be sent to the mortuary.
After a person is pronounced dead, their body is reportedly kept on the casualty ward for two hours in what is known as a “cooling-off” period.
He had a metabolic disorder and was delirious when police brought him in, according to doctors.
Dr Suleman Merchant, the dean of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, was quoted as saying, “Prakash was an alcoholic who had neglected himself and had maggots on his face and ears”.
While the police blames the doctor who attended to the patient, the hospital said it was the cops who had put pressure on the doctor to do a rushed job, as they were supposed to go for bandobast duty for the prime minister’s visit, reports Mid Day.
“We were shocked to find patient was alive after he had been declared dead”.
But the hospital’s dean, Sulman Merchant, told the Hindustan Times the hospital doctor had been pressured by police to certify the man as dead.
The authorities in Mumbai are often faced with unclaimed dead bodies and media reports have suggested mortuaries are running out of room to hold the corpses.
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Prakash is now stable and is undergoing treatment for malnourishment and an ear infection at the hospital’s intensive care unit, the BBC says.
