{"id":10734,"date":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","slug":"covid-patients-body-lies-at-home-for-8-hrs-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10734","title":{"rendered":"Covid patient\u2019s body lies at home for 8 hrs | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,resizemode-4\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Kolkata: The body of a 63-year-old Covid patient was left at his residence for eight hours before the KMC, police and health department arrived. The incident was reported from Matheswartala Road under the Pragati Maidan police station. <br \/>The elderly man was in home quarantine after being detected with Covid. He passed away around 5am on Tuesday. As the family struggled for a doctor, the administration allegedly kept passing the buck. The KMC and police finally took the body away around 1pm. The police, however, denied there was any delay. \u201cA death certificate is a must. There is also a mandatory waiting time before issuing a death certificate. There was no question of any delay and everything was arranged in the quickest possible time,\u201d said an officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/covid-patients-body-lies-at-home-for-8-hrs\/articleshow\/77228983.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: The body of a 63-year-old Covid patient was left at his residence for eight hours before the KMC, police and health department arrived. The incident was reported from Matheswartala Road under the Pragati Maidan police station. The elderly man was in home quarantine after being detected with Covid. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1593210142_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}