While India braces up the intense second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on one hand, on the other hand, the country has been witnessing some bizarre and shocking incidents that happen around the outbreak, which distresses the people amid their battle of curbing the spread. From testing positive for the pandemic after the COVID-19 vaccination to inoculating the wrong vaccines, India has been witnessing such developments in its store. 

In line with that, an incident that happened in Bihar had shocked the nation. According to reports, a government hospital in Patna had declared an alive person as dead and handed over the wrong body to the kin. Chunnu Kumar, a native of Mahmadpur village in the Barh sub-division in Patna district, was undergoing treatment for the COVID-19 viral infection at the government hospital. 

However, on Sunday, the hospital authorities declared Chunnu Kumar dead while he was receiving treatment. The staff went on to hand over another person's body to Kumar's brother claiming it was Kumar. However, when Kumar's brother identified that he was given another person's body, he took to the attention of the hospital authorities following which they had realized that Kumar is still alive and they had handed over the wrong body to the kin. 

When the incident came to light, the hospital authorities had invited massive flak and the state government has ordered a probe into the matter. The reports say that Patna District Magistrate Chandrasekhar Singh had directed the hospital authorities to conduct an investigation and take action against the person responsible. The Magistrate had also asked the hospital to take steps to ensure that such incidents won't occur in the future. 

Last week, a community health center in the Kandhla area of Shamli in western Uttar Pradesh had inoculated rabies vaccine for three women, who had come to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The incident came to the revelation when one of the three women developed side effects such as dizziness and nausea after receiving the rabies vaccine, which would be administered for the people who had got bitten by an animal or exposed to the rabies virus. 

After developing the side-effects, the affected woman had approached a private doctor and she had shown him the slip given to her at the vaccination center. The slip mentioned that she was given a rabies vaccine. After the incident came to light, it had stirred massive controversies following which the district magistrate had launched a probe into the matter. Following the probe, a pharmacist at the community center was suspended and a show-cause notice was issued to the medical superintendent of the community health center on Friday. 

Speaking to a news agency, Shamli Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur said that the incident was happened due to the lapse by the pharmacist as the rabies vaccines were administered for three women without asking them why they need rabies vaccines. Kaur further added that the rabies vaccine will be administered at the community center every Thursday and these women had stood in the line without proper awareness. The pharmacist should have been careful before inoculating the vaccine and he had failed to follow the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).