The incident in which a woman who was thought to be dead due to COVID and then was later found to have been buried alive in Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock. It is to be noted that, a little while after she was buried, she had managed to come back, scaring the daylights out of her kin and those nearby.
Girijamma of Christianpet in Andhra Pradesh was admitted to Vijayawada Government Hospital on May 12 due to a severe case of coronavirus infection and was thought to have died on May 15. A body was handed over to relatives from the hospital.
Meanwhile, Girijamma’s son Ramesh had died earlier that month due to coronavirus. Relatives had thought that both the mother and son have died. However, 10 days after the funeral, when a special prayer meeting was being held at Girijamma’s house, everyone was shocked to find Girijamma alive.
Further investigation into this issue revealed that the body of another man, who died due to hospital negligence, was returned to her relatives and that it was his body that was buried, while Girijamma was fully alive and was undergoing treatment at the same hospital. An inquiry is underway as to find out how the body was mismatched.
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