LUCKNOW, Dec. 28 -- The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday suspended three staff members from Kanpur's Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College after a living patient was mistakenly declared dead.

Acting on directions from deputy chief minister and health minister Brajesh Pathak, authorities suspended junior resident Dr Himanshu Maurya, staff nurse Sunny Sonkar, and ward attendant Rahnuma for their alleged involvement in the incident. A three-member inquiry committee has been formed to submit its report within three days.

The incident occurred in ward no 12 of the medicine department, where police information (PI) was sent declaring the patient in bed no 43 as deceased while the patient was alive. The error came to light...