Queues for oxygen and for cremation

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Aasha Khosa • 2 Years ago
A relative waits outside Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, East Delhi
A relative waits outside Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, East Delhi

 

New Delhi/Ravi Batra

There were long queues outside gurudwaras that are helping people with inhaling oxygen and also refilling the cylinders for taking hime for patients of Covid-19 and so were the queues at the cremation grounds where the mortal remains of those who had died of the viral disease were waiting to be consigned to the flames.

People waiting for refilling their oxygen cylinders from Indirapuram Gurudwara in UP bordering Delhi.

The Indirapuram Gurudrawa has started 'Oxygen langar' where patients requiring inhalation of oxygen to cope with low levels of ocygen due to Covid infection and those wanting to refill the cylinders for patients at home can take it away free of cost.

The volunteers carry the cylinders of oxygens to the patients waiting in their personal or hired vehicles.

Relatives and volunteers waiting at the cremation ground in Ghaziabad for cremation of the Covid-dead.

At the Ghaziabad and an East Delhi cremation ground, there were long queues of the bodies wrapped in shrounds awaiting their turn for cremation.

The scene at Ghaziabad crematorium

The scenes everyone in Delhi and in surrounding areas were of anxious pesons - patients, relatives of relatives or those who had died of Covid and whose bodies whad to wait for long for cremation.  

Tired of waiting and exhausation, a PPE-clad relative of the dead person dozes off while waiting for cremation of his relative's body at Ghaziabad

Anxious relatives of Covid patients outside the Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital, Dilshad Garden, East Delhi.

(Photos: Ravi Batra)