Muslim Cremated, Hindu Taken for Burial: Last Memory for 2 Families as AIIMS Trauma Centre Mixes Up Bodies

New Delhi: The family of Nasreen (name changed) was called and informed by the AIIMS trauma centre early in the morning of June 7 that she has succumbed to Covid-19.

Seven family members rushed to the hospital around 8 in the morning to collect the body, but were asked to prepare for burial as the body was getting ready to be dispatched.

At the point when the sibling of the casualty demanded seeing the face, he was informed that they'll have the option to do so just at the graveyard. One of the seven relatives remained at the Trauma community, while the rest 

went to the graveyard at Delhi Gate to plan for the burial service. 

Around early afternoon, the body shrouded in plastic, just like the case with all Covid-19 bodies, was given over to the family. 

Directly before the memorial service, Nasreen's three kids again demanded seeing their mom's face. "We were told by an authority at the Delhi Gate graveyard that we'll need to pay Rs 500 to see the face," 

Nasreen's sibling said. "As we paid them to see my



sister's face, we were stunned. It wasn't Nasreen. It was Arti's body (name changed) and have a place with a Hindu family," he included.

The family members were told that there has been a mistake and they'll get the "right body" in an hour. All seven family members waited at the burial ground for hours but there was no update. On reaching 

the trauma centre again, they were told that the body of their beloved Nasreen had been cremated by a Hindu family.

The Hindu family, who had already cremated Nasreen's body at the Punjabi Bagh cremation ground, later learnt that it wasn't the body of their daughter.

AIIMS Trauma Center authorities told News Reporter that an inquiry has been set up in the matter and one person from the mortuary staff was terminated, while another was suspended.

The exchange of two Covid-19 deceased at the trauma centre was a lapse of the part of the hospital authorities, a human error perhaps, but this error could mean that the two families may never ever be able to get a closure.