The 67-year-old man, whose false death report by civic-run <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/topic/thane-all" target="_blank">Thane</a> Global Impact Hub caused confusion between two families, breathed his last at 1:30 am on Wednesday.
Janardhan Sonawane&rsquo;s son Sandeep told mid-day that he received a call from the hospital staff in the wee hours informing about his father&rsquo;s death.
&ldquo;I got a call in the wee hours on Wednesday from the hospital staff. They informed me that my father has passed away. This call confused me again and I asked the staff if they are sure this time, to which the staff confirmed that my father Janardhan Sonawane has passed away,&rdquo; Sandeep told mid-day.
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"I have not been given any document to know if my father died of COVID-19. The paperwork at the hospital is going on and I am yet to get my father&rsquo;s body,&rdquo; he added.
On July 3, Sandeep had received a call from civic-run <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/topic/coronavirus-mumbai-all" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> hospital in Kalwa at 6:30 am informing that his father had died of coronavirus. The hospital handed a body wrapped and taped in a PPE suit to the family. &ldquo;The body was wrapped in a PPE suit and the face was not visible. We could not tell the hospital staff to show us the face as it was not advisable," Sandeep had said.
However, a few days later, the family got to know that Sonawane is alive and the body they cremated was of 71-year-old Bhalchandra Gaikwad. On July 6, Sandeep received a call from the hospital and the staff told him that &lsquo;his father is alive&rsquo;.
On July 7, Sandeep saw his father in the Intensive Care Unit and returned the death certificate to the hospital. &ldquo;The happiness did not last for long,&rdquo; said Sandeep.
The in-charge of the hospital, Dr. Yogesh Sharma, said, &ldquo;I am yet to check if Janardhan Sonawane is dead but I have been told by my staff that he passed away last night. A departmental enquiry is going on into the confusion of handing over the body to another family.&rdquo;
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In a clear case of mismanagement by the hospital, civic-run Thane Global Impact Hub had handed over another patients body to Sandeep, saying that it was his father 

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