Covid Pandemic: Why dead bodies were found floating in river Ganga
India continues to be the world’s worst Covid affected nation with Wednesday’s determine of contemporary circumstances once more crossing 3.5 lakhs at 3,62,720. Brazil comes second which reported solely 25,200 contemporary circumstances throughout final 24 hours. For the second consecutive day, the each day demise toll in India has crossed 4,000 at 4,136 fatalities.
While the disaster has considerably eased in metros like Mumbai and Delhi, it has grow to be extra acute in Bengaluru. There is way concern over the unfold of the pandemic in rural areas of India’s nice hinterland. Villages after villages in UP, MP, Rajasthan, Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are reporting contemporary Covid-19 circumstances.
During the final 24 hours, Maharashtra reported 46,781 contemporary circumstances and 816 deaths, Kerala reported 43,529 contemporary circumstances and solely 95 deaths, Karnataka 39,998 contemporary circumstances and 517 deaths, Tamil Nadu 30,355 contemporary circumstances and 293 deaths, Andhra Pradesh 21,452 contemporary circumstances and 89 deaths, West Bengal 20,377 contemporary circumstances and 135 deaths, Uttar Pradesh 18,125 contemporary circumstances and 329 deaths, Rajasthan 16,384 contemporary circumstances and 164 deaths, Gujarat 11,017 contemporary circumstances and 102 deaths, Madhya Pradesh 8.970 contemporary circumstances and 84 deaths and Uttarakhand 7749 and 109 deaths, amongst others.
Maharashtra authorities has introduced extension of state extensive lockdown until May 31. There are 13 states from the place extra Covid circumstances have been reported from rural areas in comparison with city. With villagers combating for his or her lives in the absence of correct infrastructure, there have been numerous fatalities in rural areas, unreported.
The cremation grounds in rural areas of UP are working day and evening, and so as to add to the miseries, many bodies of Covid-19 victims have been thrown into river Ganga. Several bodies were first sighted on the banks of river Ganga in Ghazipur with completely different variations placing the figures between 22 and 52. Twelve bodies were found on Ganga financial institution in Ballia, UP, whereas 71 floating bodies were found in river Ganga at Chausa Ghat in Buxar, neighbouring Bihar.
The district collectors of each Ghazipur and Buxar denied that these bodies belonged to native residents. Drone cameras are being deployed on the river banks. The Director General of Bihar Police mentioned that 71 floating bodies were recovered at Buxar, and after big nets were laid at Mahadev Ghat in Buxar on Tuesday night, six extra bodies were seen. The Bihar police chief claimed that no new bodies have but been found. Police in patrolling boats are interesting to individuals to not throw dead bodies into the river.
The UP authorities has posted police in all of the 18 cremation grounds in Ghazipur. More than 20 groups of police and income division are patrolling the river banks. 23 bodies found close to the Ganga financial institution in Ghazipur have been cremated thus far. Cremation workers in Ghazipur advised India TV reporter that a number of days in the past, the stress was heavy with greater than 90 bodies coming for cremation each day. Some of the kin determined to not wait and immersed the bodies of their pricey ones in the river Ganga. The stress has now eased, and each day 20 to 22 cremations are going down.
The disturbing movies of floating bodies in the river have shocked the general public in India. They depict how individuals throughout cremation, misplaced their sense of humanity, and determined to immerse the bodies in the flowing river. This didn’t occur on a single day. The immersion of bodies in rivers occurred for at the very least 10 to fifteen days, if native villagers are to be believed. People dwelling alongside the banks of Ganga have now realized the sins that their brethren have dedicated. Local officers are attempting to create consciousness amongst them and requesting them to cremate the bodies. The district administrations have to be vigilant, as a result of the hazard is just not over. The pandemic is spreading throughout hundreds of villages.
In the midst of all these macabre happenings, extra experiences have come about how pricey ventilators despatched from the Centre beneath PM CARES Fund to completely different district hospitals are both gathering mud, or are being given on rent to personal hospitals.
India TV reporter Manish Bhattacharya reported that the Bharatpur district hospital in Rajasthan had acquired 60 ventilators from the Centre, out of which 40 are being ‘used’ by the hospital, and 10 ventilators have been loaned on rent to a neighborhood personal hospital for Rs 60,000 a month, which involves Rs 2,000 per day. Asked why these ventilators were not getting used in the district hospital, at a time when the pandemic is at its peak, the hospital officers mentioned that there were no extra oxygen factors out there and there was lack of workers. The officers then determined to mortgage these ventilators on rent to a personal hospital.
The Centre despatched 809 ventilators to Punjab authorities, however the stunning truth is that greater than 150 ventilators are mendacity unused in the district hospitals. Some are mendacity in retailer rooms, whereas there is no such thing as a workers to function these ventilators in some hospitals.
India TV reporter Punit Parinja reported that 62 ventilators were mendacity unused in Faridkot Medical College hospital. An area AAP MLA put photos of those unused ventilators on social media and appealed to chief minister Capt. Amrinder Singh to make sure that the ventilators are used for Covid sufferers. The hospital medical superintendent claimed that 90 ventilators were not working and so they were now being repaired.
In Muktsar Sahib, Punjab, there are solely 11 ventilators with greater than 3,000 lively Covid circumstances. These ventilators couldn’t be used as a consequence of lack of educated workers who may function them. The district civil surgeon mentioned that there was not a single specialist in the district hospital who may function these ventilators. Specialists at the moment are being known as for one or two weeks solely from exterior, he added.
On its half, the Centre can solely procure ventilators and ship them to states and from there to district hospitals. These ventilators were despatched a 12 months in the past when the pandemic was in its first stage. There was one 12 months’s time left to rent technicians and educated workers to function these ventilators, however this was not finished by the state governments.
Think about it. Forty ventilators had reached Bharatpur district hospital in July final 12 months. Oxygen factors were organized for under 20 ventilators. More oxygen factors may have been organized in the hospital and this was not a giant activity. Nobody even considered that, and these pricey ventilators lay in retailer rooms unused for greater than 10 months, whereas sufferers exterior were struggling to breathe.
It is pertinent to level out right here that each these circumstances of negligence occurred in Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan and Punjab. Congress leaders, who query the operation of PM CARES Fund nearly each day, ought to now ask their state governments, why these ventilators lay unused in hospital retailer rooms.
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