COVID-19 dedicated hospital here led to a living patient at the facility being wrongly "declared dead," his family member said on Tuesday.A senior official at the city government-run LNJP Hospital, however, said the confusion happened due to the patient, Shrinwas Kumar, being a namesake of another patient, who later died."Both Shrinwases, aged 33 and 44, were brought to the hospital within a few minutes of a gap, and the 44-year-old COVID patient later died.
Some mistake happened by nursing orderlies in shifting of the two patients," the official said.That happened by mistake and because the "phone numbers had also got exchanged, leading to a confusion", she said.A family member of 33-year-old Shrinwas, said, "He is living and at the.