12 June,2009 08:18 AM IST | | Ketan Ranga
With 1 room sealed, 25 bodies had to be disposed to make space for new corpses
The bodies of the nine terrorists involved in the 26/11 attacks have created a lot of problems for the staff of J J Hospital who've had trouble managing the other bodies in the mortuary.
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There are three rooms to store bodies and with one sealed with the terrorists' bodies, around 40-45 bodies were crammed in the other two.
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A few days back, the hospital had to dispose off 25 bodies, by either cremating or burying them.
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"A few days before that, some 15 bodies were disposed off in a day to make place for newer bodies.
Now, if a relative comes to claim the bodies, they will have to go away empty-handed. Our people have to suffer because of the terrorists," said a source from the hospital.
Even after these disposals, there are still 40-45 bodies in the one working room.u00a0
The rooms are around 300 sq ft in size.
However, Dr Mohan Jadhav, dean of J J Hospital, said, "I won't be able to talk about the terrorists' bodies.
But on the space issue, there are very few bodies now, so they won't decompose. Most of the bodies have been disposed off."
4-6 degrees
he temperature required in a mortuary to stop bodies from decomposing
40-45
The number of bodies that are still in the one working room