MP: Viral Video Shows 8-Year-Old Sitting With Corpse Of 2-Year-Old Brother In Morena, Sparks Outrage

The official said that following child’s death, his father asked for, but vehicle was not available at that time. Later, child’s body was carried in police vehicle, he said.

New Delhi: An eight-year old boy sat with corpse of his two-year old brother on his lap for couple of hours in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena as his father went to look for an ambulance to take his dead child home, an incident which has led to an outrage with people blaming the authorities as “insensitive”. A video of the incident, which took place on Sunday outside the Morena district hospital, located about 30 km from Badfara village where the family lived, was widely shared on social media platforms. 

In the 19-seconds video clip, the boy can be seen sitting along the boundary wall of the district hospital, with the covered body of his two-year old sibling, who passed away at the medical facility during treatment. 

Morena District Hospital’s resident medical officer Surendra Gurjar said Pujaram Jatav, a resident of Badfara village, brought his two-year-old son Raja on Sunday morning by an ambulance, after being referred from a hospital in Ambah town of the district, reported news agency PTI. 

After leaving them at the district hospital, the ambulance returned to Ambah, while the toddler died during treatment of anaemia and other diseases on Sunday afternoon, he said.

The official further added that following the child’s death, his father Jatav asked for the ambulance from some hospital staffers, but the vehicle was not available at that time. Later, the child’s body was carried in a police vehicle, he said. 

According to sources, the deceased child’s elder brother was captured in the video when Jatav went to arrange for an ambulance, leaving the body with him, as per the PTI report. 

Reacting to the incident, Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath asked MP Chief Minister Shiraj Singh Chouhan to step in and strengthen medical facilities in the state. 

“In Morena, an 8-year-old innocent child was seen sitting in the hospital with the body of his 2-year-old brother in his lap. His father Pujaram Jatav kept pleading for an ambulance to take the son’s body to their village, but he did not get the vehicle for hours,” Nath said in a statement.

Claiming that such incidents have been very common in MP, Nath appealed to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to strengthen medical facilities in the state and make the system more sensitive to avoid such incidents.