meerut the daughter of a former master craftsman in the military engineering services mes has claimed in a video addressed to uttar pradesh chief minister yogi adityanath that her father a covid19 patient has literally vanished from the intensive care unit icu of a government hospital in meerut and that there is no trace of him for days nowthe hospital meanwhile said that santosh kumar 64 could have died about 15 days ago and may have been buried as anonymouslala lajpat rai medical college has formed a threemember team comprising senior hospital officials to look into the lapsesthe team along with findings and observations will submit a report within 24 hours said gyanendra kumar principal of the staterun hospitalkumar had earlier said there was no contact number of the family in the patients case file we had cremated a dead body as anonymous we are trying to probe if it was the same person the family said they had given out all the relevant detailssantosh had tested positive for covid19 on april 21 and was taken to llrm the same day hospital authorities now claim that he died on april 23 two days after he was admitteda resident of bareilly since march this year santosh had been staying with his daughter shifa shivangi in ghaziabad for the treatment of his wife who had been diagnosed with cancer the family said they had been getting his regular health updates over the phone but they suddenly lost contact on may 3 shivangi in an emotional appeal to yogi adityanath has said they need to at least find closurereacting to the claim that the family was getting health updates about the patient till may 3 principal kumar said there was another patient with a similar name ward attendants were giving out the health update of that person when asked about kumar by his family shivangi said hospital authorities have no answers regarding the whereabouts of my father we sought cctv footage but we are yet to receive itpolice have registered a missing person complaint a probe is on said vineet bhatnagar sp city meerut