RAIPUR: Dozens of Covid bodies are lying on the floor and on stretchers at BR Ambedkar Hospital in Raipur and in hospitals in Durg as the morgues are full - revealing the horror of the Coronavirus crisis in Chhattisgarh. Videos of this are going aroun. Overwhelmed by the number of deaths, the state government is setting up electric crematoriums in six urban areas on a war footing.
RAIPUR: Dozens of Covid bodies are lying on the floor and on stretchers at BR Ambedkar Hospital in Raipur and in hospitals in Durg as the morgues are full - revealing the horror of the Coronavirus crisis in Chhattisgarh. Videos of this are going aroun. Overwhelmed by the number of deaths, the state government is setting up electric crematoriums in six urban areas on a war footing.
Official figures show over 700 deaths in the last 12 days, but the scenes at crematoriums present a more grim picture. Raipur officially recorded 79 deaths in the past two days. Sources say many more deaths in home isolation are going unreported.
In Raipur, bodies are being cremated on open grounds at the crematorium as the space allotted for pyres is full. Workers at the morgue of BR Ambedkar Hospital - the largest in the state - said bodies lie piling up for three-four days in scorching heat due to a surge in Covid deaths. One of the videos shows more than 20 bodies lying within and outside the mortuary.
A senior officer said that it is impossible to instal more freezers at the morgue. Infrastructure stretched beyond its limits, the Raipur administration has identified seven spots on the outskirts of the city to be used as Covid cremat-ion grounds. " I have ordered electric crematoriums to be built in Raipur, Durg, Bilaspur, Bhilai, Korba and Risali," said urban development minister Shiv Kumar Dehariya.
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