Odisha shocker: Wife kills self after hospital says her husband died in AC blast, now says he is alive

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Times of India, adding the person was alive. According to the report, the charred body given to the wife of one of the AC technicians – injured during an AC explosion at a hospital in Odisha – didn't belong to him and he is still undergoing treatment. The AC technician – 34-year-old Dilip Samantaray – is among the four AC technicians who got injured in the accident and is recuperating from burns in the same hospital, which is now accused of wrongly identifying the one who died.

ALSO READ: New criminal laws give doctors immunity against medical negligence: Read details here The incident of Dilip's wife Sona (24) dying by suicide took place on New Year's Day – 1 January. But on Friday, Bhubaneshwar's Hi-Tech Hospital clarified that Dilip Samantaray was alive and the body given for cremation to Sona and her kin belonged to Dilip's colleague Jyotiranjan Mallick. The report added that Dilip, Jyotiranjan, Simanchal, and Sritam were servicing the hospital ACs on 29 December when an explosion took place.

This left all of them with severe burns. Surprisingly, despite pronouncing Jyotiranjan dead on 30 December, the hospital identified him wrongly. On 3 January, Sritam also succumbed to his injuries.

But till then, it was too late as the police station had handed over the first body – presumed to be Dilip's – to his kin. Following the goof-up by the hospital spread, that led to Sona's suicide, people started protesting outside the hospital. "My family is shattered.

My niece killed herself over this false information given by the hospital," TOI quoted Sona's uncle Rabindra Jena as saying. Meanwhile, Jyotiranjan's wife Arpita Mukhi is inconsolable. "I want my husband back.