Certificate Chaos: ‘Death Due to COVID-19’
After Hanushish recovered from the virus attack on April 27, he knew he had to shoulder more responsibilities now. He headed straight to the Bhopal Municipal Corporation’s office with his uncle to get his father’s death certificate.
The commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation, KVS Choudhary, said “Civic bodies state only date and time on the certificates. They have to get the COVID-19 death certificates from the department of health by showing the hospital’s documents.”
But Choudhary said he was ready to return the original certificates after The Quint pointed out they had them in their custody.
Back in Betul where Hanushish’s mother passed away, his maternal grandfather is still toiling hard to get his daughter’s COVID death certificate.
When the chief medical and health officer of Betul, AK Tiwari, was contacted for Divya’s death certificates, he responded very casually.
“I was not aware of the matter. It is not that…