D. Vithal Rao, who passed away on Thursday night was brought to Gandhi Hospital as an unidentified patient in a critical condition on Wednesday and passed away the next day.
Senior doctors from the Forensic Department of the State-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad conducted post-mortem examination (PME) without having any idea that the body was indeed that of the singer because it was not identified.
“We conducted the post mortem on Thursday as an unknown body. Later, we had sent the body to the mortuary for cold storage and safe keeping till identification process is complete.
On Friday, the local police and relatives have managed to identify the body and have informed us that it was singer Vithal Rao. We have also conducted embalming of the body,” the hospital doctors said.
It is not known, how the legendary singer reached Hyderabad, till he was brought in a critical condition to Gandhi Hospital.
KCR mourns
Meanwhile, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday mourned the death of Vithal Rao.
He reminded that the during the Telangana State Formation Day celebrations, the government had felicitated the singer.
The CM extended heartfelt sympathies to the members of the bereaved family.
His last rites would be performed on Saturday morning.
