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'After waiting 14 hours, we were able to perform grandma's last rites'
Updated On: 05 June, 2020 07:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
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

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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