LPG-based crematorium in Nashik city restored

NASHIK: The LPG-based crematorium in the city which had stopped working due to malfunctioning of an equipment was restored on Saturday morning, thus reducing the load on electric crematorium.
Earlier, due to non-functioning of the LPG-based crematorium, bodies of Covid patients that had piled up had to be cremated at the electric crematorium. Around 30 bodies were on waiting list by Thursday evening as the Nashik municipal corporation had to cremate bodies on the electric crematorium.
It takes around two hours to cremate a dead body at an electric crematorium. Earlier when both the crematoriums in the city were functioning properly, 12-14 bodies were cremated on the electric crematorium in a day while 10 dead bodies were cremated at the LPG-based one.
However, as the LPG-based crematorium stopped functioning, municipal commissioner Kailas Jadhav directed civic officials concerned to repair the defunct crematorium and make it functional immediately. Moreover, Jadhav also instructed the officials to cremate bodies of deceased Covid patients through traditional way by using wood.
NMC officials said they cremated all the piled up dead bodies on waiting list by Saturday noon after the LP-based crematorium was restored.
There has been a sharp rise in Covid-related deaths in the district in the last four-five days with 71 patients succumbing to the contagion. In addition, the bodies of Covid-19 patients from rural parts of the district are cremated at the crematorium based in the city.
“There had been some technical snag developed at the LPG-based crematorium here that led to a delay in cremating the dead bodies. We also cremated some dead bodies using wood at the crematorium. We also repaired the LPG-crematorium and that has been made operational now since late night,” said Kalpana Kute, director of solid waste department of NMC, said.