Apart from grievances of patients about medical treatment at Parel's KEM hospital, there are now complaints of the dead not being treated with dignity as well. Saira Shaikh (name changed), 40, who had tested positive for COVID-19 died on June 2 and her relatives have alleged that her body was left partially clothed for over eight hours after her death in the hospital ward.

A resident of Govandi, Shaikh complained of stomach ache around 15 days ago, after which her husband took her to a local doctor. "The doctor asked us to get a sonography done and said that she had kidney stones. I took her to KEM hospital when she wasn't getting any better," he said. She was admitted to KEM hospital on May 22, days after which she tested positive for COVID.