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In The Hospital That Refused to Treat – Chapter 56, hospital records expose a shocking identity fraud as the living dead are finally found.
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The Hospital That Refused to Treat – Chapter 56
Chapter 56: The Living Dead
The memory card changed everything.
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By morning, cybercrime officers had opened hundreds of files.
Original admissions.
Altered death certificates.
Insurance claims.
Security logs.
Payments.
Names.
Ramesh had copied more than anyone realised.
Joseph stood beside Shalini as an officer scrolled through the records.
“Forty-three identities,” he said.
“Forty-three victims?” Shalini asked.
“At least.”
Some had genuinely died, but their identities continued receiving treatment.
Others were alive.
Harish Vora was one of them.
Police found him with six other patients during the warehouse raid. Two were elderly people whose families had been told they had been transferred elsewhere.
“Why didn’t they leave?” Prakash asked.
Anita answered quietly.
“Some were ill. Some were drugged. Some didn’t know where they were.”
“And some trusted the people treating them,” Shalini said.
That was the part she found hardest to accept.
The records also separated the guilty.
Mahesh had designed the system that allowed identities to be reused. Later payments proved he had profited from it.
Suresh had altered records and destroyed evidence.
The administrator had authorised secret transfers and cancelled Aditya’s emergency alert after his condition deteriorated.
Other names led investigators to two more hospitals, an insurance intermediary and several former employees.
By afternoon, television vans surrounded City Care.
Its main entrance was sealed.
Joseph’s old reporter instincts returned.
“This will be everywhere by tonight.”
Shalini wasn’t listening.
An ambulance had stopped outside.
Harish Vora was being transferred to another hospital.
Alive.
His daughter stood beside him, crying.
For six months, she had believed her father was dead.
Nearby, Mahesh was led towards a police vehicle.
He saw Shalini.
“I exposed them,” he said.
Shalini walked towards him.
“No. Aditya exposed you. Ramesh preserved the proof. Anita survived you.”
Mahesh looked away.
“And we followed what they left behind.”
The police vehicle drove off.
Joseph joined her.
“It’s over.”
Shalini watched City Care’s doors being locked.
“No,” she said.
“What do you mean?”
She looked towards the patients waiting outside.
“The crime may be over.”
She paused.
“But somebody still has to treat them.”
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To be continued…
