Kolkata: Kolkata's 93-year-old trade union leader Jyotsna Bose became the country's "first lady", whose body has been donated for medical research to explore the effects of coronaviruses on humans, an organization that led to cadaver donations Bengal said.
A statement released by the non-profit organization 'Ganderpan' also said that Jyotsna Bose is the second person from West Bengal after its founder, Brozo Roy, to have performed a pathological autopsy on his body at a government hospital here. After death due to COVID-19.
The remains of ophthalmologist Dr. Vishwajit Chakraborty, another victim of the infection, have also been donated for the same purpose, making him the third such person in the state.
Jyotsna Bose's granddaughter Dr.Teesta Basu said that the trade unionist who mortgaged her body nearly 10 years ago through the organization of Brojo Roy was admitted to a hospital in The Beliaghata area of North Kolkata on 14 May, and two days later she passed away.
"My grandmother's pathological autopsy was done on Tuesday at RG Medical College and Hospital."
"She is the first female body in the country, donated for pathological autopsy after death due to COVID-19," she told PTI.
Dr. Basu, MD, Pathology, said, "We don't know much about coronavirus because it is a new disease. We need to understand its full impact on organs and organ systems. Pathological autopsies help us in this Quest."
Jyotsna Bose was born in 1927 in Chittagong, present-day Bangladesh.
During World War II, Bose's father went missing while returning from Burma and the family went through a massive economic crisis. She failed to complete her studies and worked as an operator at British Telephone.
Jyotsna Bose joined the trade union movement shortly after and participated in the Post and Telegraph strike of 1946 in support of the Naval Rebellion.
Her granddaughter said that she later married prominent trade unionist Moni Gopal Basu and after retirement kept herself busy with social and political work.
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