Hyderabad: No Place to Preserve Bodies If Death Comes Calling in the Night
With hospitals insisting that dead bodies be shifted immediately and crematoriums not accepting bodies after 6 pm, families losing people to COVID-19 are caught in a bind.
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New Delhi:Â Due to the lack of storage facilities in a number of small private hospitals in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) region to preserve dead bodies, family members of those who succumb to COVID-19 are facing difficulties if a patient dies late in the evening,
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As crematoriums do not take dead bodies after 6 pm, families of patients who succumb to COVID-19 in small private hospitals are clueless as to how to handle the body: they can neither preserve it at the hospital nor can they move it to the crematorium. Efforts to move dead bodies to government mortuaries are also proving to be in vain, as they are already reporting full occupancy.
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Updated Apr 25, 2021, 9:31 am IST
The labeling of micro containment zones would simply remain on paper just to report this to the court, said a senior official
Due to lack of surveillance and violation of other Covid19 guidelines by officials, Coronavirus patients are freely roaming around the city. Representational image/AFP
HYDERABAD: Complaints are widespread that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is not ensuring the safety of both the Covid19 patients and the residents living in their vicinity. After the high court pulled up the civic body, it created some ‘namesake’ containment zones but stopped short of barricading such areas and spraying disinfectants as is required under Covid-regulations.
Pandemic overshadows Telangana s urban local body polls
Sun, Apr 25 2021 11:42 IST |
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Oldest Delhi voter Kalitara casts her vote at age of 111. . Image Source: IANS News
Hyderabad, April 25 : The April 30 election to seven urban local bodies in Telangana is drawing more attention for being conducted amid an intense second wave of Covid-19 pandemic than the contest among political parties.
Despite the demands by opposition parties to postpone the polls in view of the massive surge in Covid cases across the state, the State Election Commission (SEC) is going ahead with the conduct of the polls as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government is not in favour of deferring the elections.
Telangana announces summer holidays for schools and junior colleges
The minister further said that the decision to reopen the schools and junior colleges for the new academic year would be taken on June 1 in view of the situation in COVID-19.
By Sakina Fatima| Published: 25th April 2021 4:39 pm IST Representative Image Photo: PTI
Hyderabad: Telangana government on Sunday has declared summer holidays for schools and junior colleges from April 27 to May 31.
The decision has been taken keeping in mind the health and safety of the students and April 26 would be the last working day of the current academic year, said an order issued by the department of Telangana school education.
7432 new coronavirus cases reported in Telangana: The Telugu states too witnessed a sudden rise in the number of new coronavirus cases and the states are kept on high alert. The governments imposed night curfew all over from 10 PM to 5 AM across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. A total number of 7432 new cases of coronavirus are reported in the state in the last 24 hours.