PUNE: Members of the family of the 11 COVID-19 sufferers, who died after a hearth broke out at a hospital in Ahmednagar, are in a state of shock and but to return to phrases with the truth that their family members, whom they’d admitted to the medical facility with the hope of restoration, will now by no means come again house.
A few of them have been inconsolable as they might not actually have a final glimpse of their lifeless kin within the wake of the COVID-19 protocols.
The members of the family bid farewell to their lifeless kin with a heavy coronary heart after the our bodies had been handed over to them by the hospital administration late Saturday night.
Eleven coronavirus sufferers had been killed on Saturday after a serious hearth broke out within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the district civil hospital in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar metropolis, positioned 120 km from Pune and 253 km from Mumbai.
The blaze erupted round 11 am within the ICU ward the place 17 COVID-19 sufferers, lots of them senior residents and a few on ventilator or oxygen, had been present process remedy.
The ward had been added to the hospital after the pandemic started, officers earlier stated.
The hospital administration late within the night handed over the our bodies to their kin who carried out the final rites at crematoriums in Ahmednagar metropolis and neighbouring Nevasa tehsil within the district.
Adinath Wagh, who misplaced his uncle Ramkishan Harpude (70) within the hospital blaze, carried out his cremation at their native place in Nevasa on Saturday night time.
“It was solely two days again that he was admitted and we had been anticipating a speedy restoration. However he died within the hearth tragedy,” he informed PTI.
Wagh stated most of the shut members of the family had been distraught and inconsolable as they might not see Harpude’s face one final time as a result of COVID-19 protocols.
“After receiving the physique, it was taken to our native place and we carried out the final rites within the presence of shut members of the family,” he added.
Bhagwan Pawar, who misplaced his father Bhivaji Pawar (80) within the hospital blaze, stated they needed to carry out his final rites in Ahmednagar as an alternative of their native village in Parner tehsil.
The opposite kin couldn’t attend the funeral, he rued.
“My father had a tragic loss of life. As a consequence of COVID-19, the cremation was performed in Ahmednagar solely. Only some of us had been current within the crematorium,” he stated.
Vivek Khatik, whose father Kadu Bal Gangadhar Khatik (65) additionally died within the tragedy, stated they carried out his funeral at their village in Nevasa tehsil.
“We obtained the physique late Saturday night for the final rites. My mom was additionally in the identical ICU. We may save her, however not my father,” Khatik stated.
In keeping with police officers, out of the 11 deceased, one was thus far unidentified and the physique was saved in a morgue.
The sufferer might be cremated by the Ahmednagar civic physique after completion of the due course of, they stated.
