New Delhi: The largest cemetery in Delhi, located near the ITO, is now running out of space for burying bodies amid rising deaths from coronavirus infections in the national capital, as patients from other areas of the NCR who died from Covid-19 Is also being buried here.
An official managing it gave this information on Tuesday. Haji Mian Fayyazuddin, secretary of Ahle Islam Cemetery, said, “There should be some arrangement so that those who died from Covid-19 are buried in the cemeteries around them and their relatives do not have to come here as space is limited.” He said the management committee would write a letter to the Delhi government to ensure that bodies from other parts of the city were not sent to the cemetery for burial.
Fayyazuddin said that one of the problems facing the cemetery management is that it has to provide space for burying the bodies of patients from neighboring cities like Noida, Ghaziabad, and Meerut who have died while undergoing treatment in Delhi. “We don’t have a problem but limited space is a real issue,” he said.
He said that although the issue of location is not so serious at the moment if the current rate of the burial of corpses continues, there could be difficulty in about two months. Fayyazuddin said, “We are finding of 4-5 bodies of Covid-19 dead these days. A total of 67 Covid-19 dead have been buried here in September, 57 in October and 50 so far in November. ”
Burial of the Covid-19 dead in the ITO cemetery, spread over about 50 acres, began in April. 121 people died in Delhi on Monday due to Covid-19, officials said.
