INDORE: Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College mortuary has reported 122% increase in inflow of bodies in first six months of this year in comparison to 2020.
The records accessed by TOI showed that in first six months of 2021 including the three months of second wave, medical college mortuary received 2150 bodies, which was only at 966 in the same period last year.
MGM dean Dr Sanjay Dixit said, “Second wave has caused a high number of deaths. But, the bifurcation of the data is required before commenting on it.”
During the peak of second wave, the bodies from only three associated hospitals treating Covid-19 patients were sent to mortuary.
TOI on April 20 reported that the three hospitals associated with the medical college sent 151 bodies to the mortuary between afternoon of April 11 and April 17.
Dr Dixit said, “During pandemic, there was a high number of referred cases in MY hospital non covid hospital from outside of district due to stoppage of regular admission there. So, these figures also include those deaths in MY along with medico legal cases.”
MY hospital however was operating at its minimal capacity during pandemic only dealing emergency cases, however.
There is a normal flow of around six to eight bodies to the mortuary on a daily basis before and after peak as happening now.
So, it counted for somewhere around 220 bodies at maximum in a month only when covid-19 hasn't increase flow of bodies, showed records.
During the pandemic the mortuary was witnessing an inflow of bodies to its fullest holding capacity of around 24 at one go. And even, on one night in April-May, there were 30 bodies rushed to morgue-which was highest for any day so far, showed records.
The morgue received around 2249 bodies between April 1 and December 31 last year amidst pandemic-which was almost at par with those received in six months this year. The pandemic broke out on March 23 last year with the first four cases.
