JEYPORE: Stray dogs feasted on a stillborn in the Jeypore sub divisional hospital on Monday.
A woman had delivered the stillborn baby and her relatives left it outside the labour room but the matter went unnoticed by the medical staff for several hours.
Stray dogs then dragged the body and feasted on it. Some patients saw the dogs nibbling the body and informed medial staff, who later disposed it as per medical norms.
Jeypore SDMO SS Satpathy denied having knowledge about anyone leaving the body behind at the labour room and said an inquiry will be called into the incident.
Sources said the medical staff pay little attention towards disposal of medical waste and stillborns. Two such cases were reported recently.