One family has had their faith in the authorities shattered after they were informed about their relative’s death due to Covid-19 three days after he officially passed away.
This awful incident has compounded the family’s sense of loss.
It was on July 23 that the Health Department included the name of Stanborlang Dohtdong in the list of Covid-related fatalities, saying that he had passed away the previous day. This was then read in the newspapers the following day by his family members, who put in a call to the hospital only to find that the 18-year-old was still alive and receiving treatment in the intensive care unit at Shillong Civil Hospital.
Today morning, however, the family in Byrwa, Ri-Bhoi, were informed that he had succumbed to the disease.
The grieving relatives have been left confused as to whether the youth had really died on July 22 and the health authorities had been delayed in passing on the news to the family, or whether Dohtdong had been prematurely listed as dead and only passed away this morning.
The local unit of the Khasi Students Union has slammed the Health Department for its “carelessness” and demanded a probe into the matter.
