Following the ghastly practice accident in Balasore on Friday that left 288 lifeless and over 800 injured, the Odisha authorities on Saturday arrange a brief mortuary on the enterprise park of North Orissa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NOCCI) on the outskirts of the town, an official stated. The 40,000 sq ft Expo Hall of the NOCCI has been transformed right into a mortuary the place unidentified our bodies will probably be saved, the official stated. The place is about 15 km from the accident web site close to Bahanaga railway station in Balasore district. Speaking to IANS over cellphone, Balasore Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Sucharu Bal stated, “We have set up a mortuary at NOCCI. The bodies will be preserved in ice-ridden beds put up at the big hall. Sufficient beds with ice slabs have been kept there to store the unidentified bodies.”
So far, 55 our bodies have been recognized and handed over to the members of the family after post-mortem, he stated. Out of the remaining our bodies, 27 have been shifted to the mortuary from native hospitals after conducting autopsy, the ADM knowledgeable. Bal stated the remaining our bodies are saved on the Bhanaga High School, which has been transformed right into a makeshift mortuary, for identification. The unidentified our bodies will probably be shifted from the Bahanaga High School to the short-term mortuary at NOCCI, he stated. “As most of the deceased are from other states like West Bengal and Bihar, the process of identification has become difficult,” Bal stated.
Nearly half of the passengers who sustained minor accidents have been discharged from the hospitals after remedy. About 418 injured passengers are present process remedy at Gopalpur, Khantapara, Balasore, Bhadrak, Soro and the SCB Medical College in Cuttack. Maximum injured individuals have been admitted to the native hospitals. Only the intense sufferers are being referred to SCB Medical College, which is about 173 km from Balasore. More than 100 medical groups with paramedical workers together with medicines have been mobilised to the accident web site, whereas 200 ambulances are engaged in shifting the injured to the hospitals, officers stated. Besides, 30 buses have been engaged for the motion of stranded passengers.
