TMMK volunteers help to bury or cremate COVID-19 victims
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The volunteers have up to now helped to bury or cremate over 2,170 individuals of various faiths.
Even whereas observing the dawn-to-dusk Ramzan fasting, volunteers of the medical wing of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) proceed the service they began final yr — providing a good burial or cremation of COVID-19 victims.
The volunteers have up to now helped to bury or cremate over 2,170 individuals of various faiths. “Our volunteers helped in the burial or cremation of 1,820 persons who died of COVID-19 till March 31. More than 350 bodies were handled in April alone, till Monday,” says M. Mohamed Rafi, joint secretary of the medical wing. The TMMK began the service, seeing the reluctance of individuals to carry out the final rites of their beloved ones who died of the contagion.
The volunteers don’t cost for his or her service. But the price of the private protecting gear they use and the cremation and burial costs are borne by the households of the deceased. “If a family is unable to bear these expenses, volunteers try to source money from sponsors,” Mr. Rafi says.
The volunteers transport the physique from the hospital to the burial floor or cemetery or crematorium.
Religious rites are organized by the kin of the deceased. In the case of cremation, they take the physique to the crematorium and hand it over to the workers there. And within the case of burial, the volunteers themselves do the work.
In the month of Ramzan, they’re working in two shifts. Around 50% of the volunteers have taken the COVID-19 vaccine, Mr. Rafi says. Efforts are being made to get the others vaccinated.
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