Acting on an online campaign launched by a city-based woman, the Maharashtra government has ordered St George's hospital in South Mumbai to upgrade its morgue and appoint only qualified staff to conduct autopsies. The hospital authorities said following the government order they now plan to construct a new morgue there.

Renu Kapoor, a member of Colaba Advanced Locality Management (ALM), a citizen's group, had put up a petition on on Change.org in April to highlight the poor condition of the morgue in the hospital. "10 bodies stacked one on top of the other in a dimly lit, tiny room with no windows and a leaky roof! Thats the morgue in Mumbais St George's hospital. In the Maximum city, the underprivileged dont even have dignity in death. Complete apathy for the dead," her petition addressed to the chief minister and family welfare minister, said. Her petition said she saw the "horrible condition" of the morgue when her driver Manoj died in April last year.