Undertakers don’t wear masks, discard PPEs carelessly
Police fob off complaints, pass buck to BBMP
BENGALURU:
After the Ballari video of Covid victims’ bodies being unceremoniously dumped in a common pit comes a similar video from Bengaluru itself.
On Wednesday, a television news channel played footage of Covid victims’ (copy also available with thebengalurulive) corpses being buried in a pit within the Muslim community’s graveyard on Nandidurga Road.
Despite protests by local residents, burials of Covid casualties from Victoria Hospital and Bowring Hospital reportedly continue at the kabrastan, which comes under BBMP’s Ramaswamy Palya ward. The cemetery is close to the junction of Nandidurga Road and J C Road.
In the last one week, 16 such burials have reportedly taken place. The video shows a pit that has been dug in the graveyard for the purpose.
According to residents in the vicinity, the pit diggers do not even wear masks, and after their ‘work’ come out to the road next to the cemetery and drink tea along with other customers. Their PPE kits are discarded carelessly in the cemetery grounds, and are dragged out onto the road by stray dogs.
Locals say that if they complain to the police, they are fobbed off and told to complain to BBMP.
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