A Family in Kolkata Forced Themselves to Preserve a 71 Years Old ‘s Body in an Ice Cream Freezer for 48 Hours

Kolkata, India, July 2nd, 2020

A family residing in Kolkata had to preserve a 71 years old man’s body for 48 hours. Who died on Monday but before receiving the reports of the Corona Virus test. The family informed the morticians about the death of the man but they refused to take the cadaver without a death certificate, signed by the physician.

Helpless and frantic the family had no other choice but to hire an ice cream freezer to prevent the body to be further decomposed due to heat and humidity. The physician visited the family, wearing a PPE kit but denied to sign the death certificate.

As the test results were due and insisted them to ring the police or the health commissioners and the councilor. The family did ring the numbers of the authorities only to get no required response. Later the test reports did show the man was Corona positive and finally around 3 PM the employees of Kolkata Municipalities Corporation took away the body and after 50 hours of the death of the man, the apartment was sanitized accordingly.

Update by Sohini Nath

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