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'After waiting 14 hours, we were able to perform grandma's last rites'

Long queue outside the Daulat Nagar crematorium in Borivli East adds to distraught family's woes along with ambulance waiting charges; rules say it is illegal to make ambulance wait

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When the family reached the crematorium they were told there were 10 last rites before theirs

When the family reached the crematorium they were told there were 10 last rites before theirs

As if having a COVID-19 patient at home wasn't tough enough, family members of patients who lose their lives are also having trouble cremating their loved onestoo. Ill-managed crematoriums are resulting in long queues for the last rites.

Family members also have to shell out Rs 300 per hour to ambulance drivers for waiting with the bodies of COVID-19 victims until their turn arrives.

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