Septuagenarian Javerben Khushalbhai Parmar, a resident of Handod village in Vadodara’s Karjan taluka, was within the shock of her life when she obtained a put up from the start and demise registration division of the Vadodara Municipal Company (VMC), containing a ‘certificates of demise’ in her identify.
The VMC had issued the certificates of demise of July 17, 2023, based mostly on a knowledge entry made by Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad Hospital (SSG) within the metropolis, the place Javerben reportedly breathed her final. After a number of hours of the civic physique and the hospital checking their information and SSG hospital even contemplating a police investigation right into a suspected “fraud”, it got here to gentle that the deceased girl whose demise certificates was issued, in truth, was Javerben Parmar’s namesake from Handod village in Chhota Udepur’s Sankheda taluk.
Not solely did the 2 girls share the identical identify and reside in villages having the identical identify in adjoining districts however their husbands additionally occurred to be namesakes — each named Khushalbhai Parmar. In response to the information of SSG hospital, Javerben (75) from Handod in Sankheda handed away on July 17 on account of “Sort I respiratory failure”.
Chatting with The Indian Categorical, SSG Medical Superintendent Dr Ranjan Aiyer stated the deceased was the relative of an ambulance driver connected with the hospital and had been admitted after verification of her paperwork, together with Aadhaar card.
“Because it got here to gentle {that a} demise certificates has been issued by the VMC to a dwelling individual, we started a probe and checked our case papers. We have been contemplating calling the police after we known as the relative of the girl who was admitted to SSG and learnt that she had certainly handed away within the hospital on July 17. She turned out to be our ambulance driver’s mother-in-law, named Javerben Khushalbhai Parmar from Parmar Faliya at Handod in Sankheda taluka,” he added.
Whereas Sankheda taluka was as soon as a part of Vadodara district, it now falls underneath Chhota Udepur district created in 2013. The hospital authorities stated that the Aadhaar card of the deceased talked about the district as Vadodara, as “it may have been issued sooner than 2013”.
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Whereas the hand-written entry in hospital’s demise file paperwork talked about the main points as per the deceased girl’s Aadhaar card, thereby mentioning Vadodara because the district, one other printed copy of the hospital demise file talked about Chhota Udepur district because the tackle.
The VMC, nevertheless, stated the civic physique had no half in noting the girl’s tackle, because the labels on the dispatch have been printed as per the net information entry made by SSG hospital. When contacted, VMC medical officer Dr Devesh Patel stated, “The VMC division for start and demise registration doesn’t delve into the main points of the affected person… We have now a web based system the place hospitals within the metropolis, together with SSG, enter information of births and deaths and the tackle labels are printed in keeping with it. The certificates are dispatched accordingly…”
“The SSG hospital information entry may have seen a human error, which will be rectified if the girl’s household or the hospital strategy us,” he added.
