On Wednesday (01-07-2020) a video of the district health department staff dragging the body of a covid victim and dumping it into a pit for burial went viral.
This comes close on the heels of similar incident in Bellary recently, where bodies of covid victims were thrown into a pit before the burial. It had caused widespread outrage among the people.
On Sunday the 45 year old victim had conducted his daughters marriage at Sirawara in raichur district .man had developed breathlessness on his way back to his native place honagera in yadgir taluk .he died on Monday .results of his throat swab samples, collected after his death, returned positive for covid 19
The video clip showed to two staff of the health department dragging the body of deceased after trying it to wooden pole in a field at Honagera village to dump as a pit. The field was little far away from the place, the staffs was seen in dragging the body and taking a break on the way .the body was dumped in and they had to throw mask, gloves and PPE Into the pit , which was filled with mud with help of earth mover .the body was kept at mortuary of the district hospital for while , as the residents had opposed performing last rites of the village burial ground. Only his younger brother was present on occasion as victim’s wife, children and relatives have been kept in isolation.
Prakash G. raja put additional deputy commissioner said that the matter would be looked into and details would be sought out from the health department.