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Autorickshaw ambulances launched
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THOOTHUKUDI The Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam cadres have deployed six autorickshaw ambulances across the port town to serve the poor during the lockdown. As demand for ambulances has increased unprecedentedly during the pandemic, rushing the patients to the nearest or the government hospitals for treatment has become a challenging task, especially for the poor.
With the number of patients, especially the COVID-19 infected, being taken to the hospital is very high, people in need of the services of the ambulances find it tough to get an ambulance in the hour of crisis.
According to the office bearers of Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, their 4,000 odd volunteers have helped to cremate and bury 2,064 people across the state from April 1 to May 25 as per the Covid protocols.
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Patna: A devotee being screened for COVID-19 as he arrives to offer Friday prayers at a Patna mosque amid Unlock 1.0 or phased relaxation during the fifth phase of the nationwide lockdown imposed to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, on June 12, 202. Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 27 : During the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam have come forward to bury people who died of Covid and whose family does not have the resources to conduct a decent funeral. Also, in certain cases, family members refuse to take the corpse to the crematorium fearing that they too will be infected.
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A video on the strain on India s crematoriums and burial grounds during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
In early March 2021, health bulletins across India started showing an upward trend of COVID-19 cases. Social media was filled with posts asking for help in arranging hospital beds or oxygen cylinders. Now they are asking for cremation spaces.
Due to a lack of resources, the country has witnessed the number of COVID-19 deaths soaring. There are reports of several bodies of COVID-19 victims being stuffed in one ambulance while being taken to crematoriums due to a shortage in ambulances.