GCC to streamline COVID death management to prevent super spreader events at crematoriums

Greater Chennai Corporation has decided to streamline COVID death management process to prevent cremations from becoming "super spreader events" and avoid any delay in bodies reaching cremat

Greater Chennai Corporation has decided to streamline COVID death management process to prevent cremations from becoming "super spreader events" and avoid any delay in bodies reaching crematorium. A meeting of forensic medicine experts, representatives of the Red Cross and civic officials was held in Ripon Buildings on Tuesday, to make the system more efficient during the pandemic. Senior officials have directed the public health officials to divert bodies to other crematoriums in the event of any crowding of cremations at any of the facilities. A centralised system of allocation of dead bodies for cremation in various burial grounds in the city has been proposed. Officials have also been asked to resolve the issue of safe cremation of COVID negative dead bodies who had actually been admitted to hospitals after testing positive for COVID.