Sumanahalli crematorium shut down
The Hindu
The two furnaces have broken down on account of overload, says official
The overworked furnaces at Sumanahalli electric crematorium, which have been taking a significant load of COVID-19 bodies, have broken down. The facility will be shut up to May 10. These are not the first furnaces to break down. In the last two weeks, furnaces at the crematoriums on Mysuru Road and at Kudlu also broke down, unable to take the load of bodies. The Hindu had reported on the issue on May 1. “A furnace in an electric crematorium can burn a maximum of five bodies a day. But in the last month, these furnaces have worked relentlessly without a break burning bodies several times their capacity. Their breakdown was expected, and it is imminent in other crematoria as well,” said a senior official overseeing electric crematoria in the city.
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