Delhi Running Out Of Space For Funerals Amid Record Covid Deaths
Delhi Running Out Of Space For Funerals Amid Record Covid Deaths
Today, Delhi recorded 350 deaths, yesterday it was 357, and 348 the day before that. The average number of Covid deaths in the past week was 304.
New Delhi: With over 350 deaths recorded every day in recent days, Delhi has less and less space to cremate its dead. So much so that new facilities, even if temporary, sites are being developed to accommodate the pandemic’s increasing number of victims.
Today, Delhi recorded 350 deaths, yesterday it was 357, and the day before, 348. The average number of COVID-19-related deaths in the past week was 304.
At the Sarai Kale Khan cremation site, for instance, around 60-70 bodies are being handled every day because of the deadly second wave. The facility, however, has capacity for only 22. Now, at least 100 new platforms are being raised in the green space near it in anticipation of an even higher caseload.
"There is a lot of pressure to complete the construction of these new platforms," said a person connected to the facility.
Pashupati Mandal, a contractor in charge of raising the new platforms said, "Some 20 of these will be ready by night. Another 80 will come up in some more days."
The staff at the crematorium is overworked. So much so that relatives of the dead have to lend a hand, including by moving firewood and making other arrangements.
The situation is as serious in Delhi’s other 25 crematoriums and burial grounds run by three of its municipal corporations.
Many cities and administrative bodies in India are facing this land crunch following a tidal wave of Covid-related deaths. A few days ago, the Revenue Minister of Karnataka R Ashoka told NDTV that the government had initiated the process of identifying and developing land to set up temporary crematoriums, especially on the outskirts of state capital Bengaluru.
This shortage of land for funerals only adds to the already dark conditions wrought by the pandemic, with key commodities and items like oxygen, medicines, vaccines, and even hospital beds in an acute short supply across the country.
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