Odisha nurse quits job to help husband cremate unclaimed bodies of Covid patients

Odisha's Madhusmita Prusty quit a well-paying nursing job to help her husband in cremating unclaimed bodies of Covid and non-Covid patients.

At a time when several families have refused to cremate their relatives over the fear of Covid-19, Madhusmita Prusty of Odisha and her husband have come as a glimmer of hope. The 37-year-old, who worked as a nurse in a private hospital in Kolkata, left her well-paying job to join her husband in cremating unclaimed bodies of Covid patients in Bhubaneswar. After working for nine years at the private hospital, Madhusmita said she returned to Odisha in 2019 to join her husband Pradeep Kumar Prusty who was performing the last rites of those who died by suicide, road accidents or who were found dead on railway tracks.