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.
Maharashtra Shocker! Bodies Of 22 Covid Victims Stuffed In One Ambulance
The districts administration cites the lack of medical transport vehicles as the reason for hoarding 22 bodies of Covid-19 patients in one ambulance.
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An ambulance was stuffed with the bodies of 22 Covid-19 victims 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.
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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
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Incident sparks public outrage
Beed administration rushed to spot
New Delhi: In an incident that triggered outrage in public, bodies of 22 COVID-19 patients were stuffed in one ambulance while they were being transported to a crematorium in Maharashtra s Beed district. The district administration cited lack of medical transport vehicles as the reason for it.
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. The incident led to an outrage among the public forcing the Beed district administration to rush to the spot and look into the matter.