Handling of bodies of patients who purportedly die from coronavirus is becoming increasingly difficult at Liaquat University Hospital as bereaved relatives often refuse to submit to the government’s SOPs for Covid-19 patients’ bodies and have angry confrontations with doctors and other hospital staff.

An unpleasant incident took place outside Covid-19 isolation ward in LUH late on Thursday night when a 50-year-old woman was declared a coronavirus patient after her death.

“Over two dozen persons present in the hospital got furious and tried to scuffle with us and hospital staff after we told them that the patient had coronavirus infection. We had to seek police help as a last resort,” said LUH’s focal person for Covid-19 Dr Aftab Hussain Phull.

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