Men enter Neurosurgery ICU to capture a spirit belonging to a man who died there 2 years ago in same place
It was a strange sight at the state-run MBS Hospital in Kota when a group of tantriks and villagers trooped into the Neurosurgery ICU to capture a spirit that had been “left behind”. The spirit in question belonged to a man who had died in the same surgical ICU two years ago while undergoing treatment.
This is not the first case of total disregard for maintaining a disinfected environ in the ICU. There have been two similar incidents in this very month on June 3 and June 5 when an encore was acted out while the hospital administration looked on. The incidents were reported from Bundi and Pratapgarh.
Ignoring the protests of the staff, as many as half-a-dozen people entered the ICU in a procession and began the exercise of “calling upon the spirit” and taking it home.
Over two dozen people waited outside the confines of medical facility. The ICU which had several other patients admitted there, saw them light up a lamp of the floor of the ICU and begin chants to “implore the spirit” “to go with them”. “They had a large steel box, lemon and cloth. They then marched off with the spirit in the box,” a hospital staffer said.
What was surprising was that apart from the initial resistance by the paramedical staff, the hospital administration raised no objection while the group proceeded about what they had come to do inside the critical care unit in total disregard of other patients who faced risk of infection.
Sources said the exercise was for a patient by the name of Ramesh from Saver village of Ajmer district who had died in this particular ICU while undergoing treatment two years ago.
The activity was carried close to the bed on which he had died.Ramesh’s relatives also made some markings on the hospital walls before they left, sources said.
Deputy superintendent of the MBS Hospital Dr Karnesh Goyal said that Ramesh’s family was not stopped and prevented from doing what they wanted as it was a part of their religious belief and they could have got violent if they were not permitted to do so.
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