Mischievous or plain callous?

According to the vendors, they discovered the hand this morning. But how did it get there is the question. Was the limb left by someone or was it carried out of the hospital premises by a stray dog? If a dog carried it out, does that mean that the PGI allows amputated limbs to be simply thrown on some exposed garbage heap? Aside from being offensive to human sentiments, allowing limbs to be disposed of this way, is highly unsanitary.

PGI Medical Superintendent Dr A. K. Gupta received the news of the arm with a jolt and thought that it might be: quot;the work of some mischievous element bent upon downgrading the image of the PGIquot;. According to Dr Gupta amputated limbs and other discarded human body parts are immediately sent from the operating rooms to a garbage vessel meant for this purpose from where they are finally taken to the incinerator.

The medical superintendent promised to make every effort to find out how the limb reached the PGI gate. The arm has meanwhile been retrieved and presumably incinerated.