This worker has cremated over 3,000 bodies in 15 years
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A. Nagarajan, the sole corporation sanitary worker deputed to Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, has cremated over 3,000 unidentified bodies over the last 15 years. While earlier the
A. Nagarajan, the sole corporation sanitary worker deputed to Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, has cremated over 3,000 unidentified bodies over the last 15 years. While earlier the patients had died of accidents or communicable diseases like chicken pox or dengue, these days, a majority of the patients died of COVID-19.
The 49-year-old man began his career as a sanitary worker in the Tiruchi Corporation, after which he was deputed to the GH 15 years ago. His role: to bury unidentified and unclaimed bodies at the crematoria within the city. "To me, a government employee is a servant to the people. My job is to be of service to the people and I have been doing that with conviction," he said.