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2021-05-01T14:24:15.033Z


| Around the world Morbidity in India continues to skyrocket: 200,000 victims crossed the threshold • Works at a burial site: "After 1,300 bodies for which we performed religious farewell ceremonies, feelings have already run out" Removal of dead bodies from Corona in India Photo:  AP "At first I felt terrible and would burst into tears, but after 1,300 bodies we performed at religious farewell ceremonies, my fe


Morbidity in India continues to skyrocket: 200,000 victims crossed the threshold • Works at a burial site: "After 1,300 bodies for which we performed religious farewell ceremonies, feelings have already run out"

  • Removal of dead bodies from Corona in India

    Photo: 

    AP

"At first I felt terrible and would burst into tears, but after 1,300 bodies we performed at religious farewell ceremonies, my feelings were exhausted. I'm not sure if it's good for me or not," one of the people in charge of the burial grounds in the city of Pune told Israel Today. In Corona in the most difficult way in the Indian subcontinent. 

"My team is constantly on alert, and as soon as we receive a call for help we set off. We usually manage to treat an average of 10 to 15 bodies a day," he says, adding: "I can not forget the first time I had to deal with a dead body. In a bag. "

The same person is actually a volunteer who does not engage in burial on a daily basis.

He entered the picture with a team of volunteers following the chaos created by the second wave of the epidemic in recent weeks in the country.

This is mainly in view of the fact that none of the official bodies wanted to touch the bodies for fear of infection. 

He goes on to tell how all the involvement of his organization began, after noticing that the bodies were allowed to rot unattended.

"The company that runs the crematoria did not agree to allow religious farewell ceremonies before the cremation, as is usually done, and simply abandoned the body. So we got approval from the administration and made sure there would be a funeral.

According to him, the burial complexes in the city are taking courses from most of the exceptional deaths.

The official procedure of the state is to wrap the bodies of the victims from the virus in sacks during burial, but this affects the decay process. 

Bodies in a sack

"Because plastic is perishable for a long time, we do not know what happens to the bodies inside the bags. The authorities are constantly working to set up new burial complexes, but they all fill up with the bodies shortly afterwards."

As mentioned, the group of volunteers operates within the framework of an association in which people whose burial is not their occupation.

"We have a team of 70 people, who come from high-tech but also from other fields. We have performed more than 1,300 religious farewell ceremonies for such bodies, and we do it just to make sure the dead get the last respect they deserve."

Meanwhile, India crossed the 200,000 death mark yesterday, following the addition of 3,285 dead a day to the general count.

It ranks second in the number of people infected with the virus, with more than 18 million positive diagnoses. 

Source: israelhayom

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