Shimla, Nov. 11 -- Owing to low awareness and religious beliefs, Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and hospital has received only 10 cadavers since 2008 when the Deh Daan Simiti initiative was started.

The IGMC has registered nearly 450 persons who have offered to donate their bodies for medical research but the college has got just 10 cadavers of which four were unclaimed bodies.

The hospital received its tenth cadaver on November 10, as honouring last respect, family members of 97-year-old Mangat Ram Chauhan, a renowned social reformer and former Panchayat head from Kotkhai in district Shimla who died at his native village, Domehar, Kotkhai, district Shimla of heart attack donated his body to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla....