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Chittorgarh Medical Dept Blunder: Living Boy Marked Dead and Female
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News18•08-10-2026, 11:37
Chittorgarh Medical Dept Blunder: Living Boy Marked Dead and Female
- •A shocking case of medical negligence emerged in Chittorgarh where a seven-year-old living boy was marked as dead in one document and as a girl in his birth certificate.
- •Pyarelal Jatia and his wife welcomed their son Bherulal on June 1, 2019, at the Kapasan Community Health Centre, where hospital staff committed the grave documentation errors.
- •The blunder was uncovered years later when documents were required for Bherulal's school admission and the creation of his Aadhaar card.
- •Despite numerous visits to the hospital by the uneducated father, the administration has only provided empty assurances instead of correcting the records.
- •Bherulal is currently studying in the second grade, but the incorrect government papers now pose a major threat to his future education and identity verification.
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Health department employees incorrectly recorded Bherulal's gender as female instead of male in his birth certificate, while the hospital's discharge certificate falsely stated that he was stillborn.
The father, Pyarelal Jatia, discovered the mistakes when official birth certificates and other documents were required for Bherulal's admission into a government school and for creating his Aadhaar card.
The erroneous certificates were issued by the Fathelal Kothari Government Community Health Centre located in Kapasan, Rajasthan.
