Saharsa, October 26: In a shocking incident of medical apathy in Bihar, a pig ran away with a newborn’s body in its jaws at the Sadar hospital at Saharsa on Wednesday. According to a report published in the The Times of India, a stray pig entered the hospital as a baby’s body lying in a compound adjacent to the hospital premises. The animal fled into the forest along with the body. However, the hospital authorities said that it was the unclaimed body of a two-day-old baby which was lying outside the hospital premises. Medical Apathy in Maharashtra: Lady With Broken Leg Dragged in Bedsheet Due to Lack of Stretchers in Nanded Government Hospital

The hospital authorities also claimed that somebody drove the pig in the hospital premises to malign its image. The inquiry has been ordered into the incident by SDO Shambhu Jha. The incident surfaced just days after a dog entered an operation theatre and ran away with an amputated leg of a patient at a government hospital in Bihar's Buxar district.

As per reports, doctors were cleaning the patient's wounds when the incident happened. Ramnath Mishra from Ara district was admitted to the hospital after he slipped and fell on the railway track while trying to board a running Sharamjivi Express at Buxar junction. As per reports, even before the staff could stop the dog, it had run away with the leg. Mishra later died in the hospital due to the grave injuries.

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