Karnataka: Bodies of 2 COVID victims found rotting in ESIC mortuary
Bengaluru: In a heart-wrenching incident, the bodies of two COVID-19 victims, who died in July 2020, are "rotting" in the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital mortuary in the city for the past over one year.
According to hospital sources, a 40-year old woman and a man in his early 50s were admitted in the hospital in Rajajinagar with coronavirus in June 2020 and died a few days later in the following month.
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Since then, their bodies are kept in the mortuary as the final rites were not performed for unknown reasons. In this regard, Rajajinagar BJP MLA and former minister S Suresh Kumar has written to Karnataka Labour Minister A Shivaram Hebbar requesting him to get the matter investigated and punish those responsible for the "inhuman incident."
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