Death in the middle of night, no place to preserve bodies
The Hindu
Family members at a loss as crematoriums do not take bodies after 6 p.m.; hospitals asking them to take the bodies as they cannot keep them beyond a certain period
Activists and members of NGOs who are taking the bodies of people dying of COVID to crematoriums have flagged an issue which could blow up in the coming days if the Telangana government do not design a system to address it. As crematoriums do not take bodies after 6 p.m. or 7 p.m., family members of the deceased are left clueless when a few private hospitals ask them to take the body late in the evening or night. According to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), crematoriums work from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and some from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. A few small private hospitals, most of which do not have the facility to preserve bodies, are asking family members to take the bodies at the earliest.More Related News