Photo for representation only.
| Photo Credit: PTI
An official said the local medical infrastructure is “stressed” as critical patients from nearby districts are also brought to Ambajogai. The bodies of 22 COVID-19 victims were stuffed in one ambulance while being taken to a crematorium at Beed in Maharashtra, with the district administration citing lack of medical transport vehicles as the reason for it.
The incident took place on Sunday when the bodies, kept in the mortuary of the Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Government Medical College at Ambajogai in Beed, were being transported for the last rites.
“This happened because the hospital administration does not have enough ambulances,” the medical college’s Dean, Dr. Shivaji Sukre, told