No one Helped us Cremate Body – Man Dies of COVID-19 on Monday, Family Keeps Body in Freezer For 48 Hours
New Delhi: While on paper, all arrangements – for COVID-19 treatment to cremation – are there, a Kolkata family had to undergo a 48-hour ordeal with the body of a septuagenarian coronavirus patient as nobody was ready to extend a helping hand as the man died in the home, not in a hospital.
The 71-year-old man, who suffered from breathing issues, had died on Monday at his home on Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani in the central part of the city. The doctor he had visited on Monday had asked him to undergo coronavirus tests, which he did. However, his situation deteriorated after returning home and he died in the afternoon, a family member said.
- Roche, Cipla Launch Antibody Cocktail Casirivimab and Imdevimab in India. Check Price, Details
- Woman ‘bought by husband’ for Rs 40,000 tries to sell 5-year-old daughter for Rs 500
- Delhi reported 25 dengue cases till May 22, highest in Jan-May period since 2013
- WILL INDIA BLOCK FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM IN 2 DAYS AS NEW IT RULES COME INTO EFFECT?
- DELHI POLICE VISITS TWITTER INDIA OFFICES IN DELHI, GURUGRAM AMID ‘CONGRESS TOOLKIT CONTROVERSY’
The results of his test had not come by then.
The doctor, after being informed, visited the man’s apartment wearing a PPE. But he refused to issue a death certificate saying that it was a COVID-19 case and advised the family members to contact the Amherst Street police station.
The police directed the family to contact the local councillor. “But there too we did not receive any help and we were asked to get in touch with the state health department,” a family member said.
“We even made several calls to the helpline given to us by a person when we called up the health department but nobody responded,” another family member said.
Unable to conduct the last rites, the desperate family members contacted a number of mortuaries but they too refused to keep the body after hearing of the circumstances of the man’s death. The family members then managed to procure a freezer to preserve the body till the last rites.
“We made several calls to the local councillor and the state health department but no one helped us. Calls were not answered. That’s why decided to keep his body at home inside a freezer,” the family member said.
The test results on Tuesday night confirmed COVID-19.
“In fact, even after getting the test reports we kept on calling the state health department but there was no response. On Wednesday morning, we got calls from the health department and told them everything,” he said.
Within an hour, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) employees reached the apartment and took away the body for cremation, the family member said.
“His body will be cremated as per the ICMR guidelines for COVID-19 deaths,” a senior KMC official said.
(With PTI Inputs)
No one Helped us Cremate Body – Man Dies of COVID-19 on Monday, Family Keeps Body in Freezer For 48 Hours
stay connected with us! For more updates
LIKE SHARE and SUBSCRIBE
if you like the article information then press the like button, Comments you’re opinions about this article and share it with family and friends on social media platforms
SUSCRIBE Quickclarity news to get latest news updates
Disclaimer : This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Quickclarity news.
Publisher – India.com
Thank you for reading
QUICKCLARITY 