Mumbai’s Bada Qabristan is helping both Hindus and Muslims perform last rites for people killed by the coronavirus.
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00:28If we talk about the present, then people of the family come to the hospital,
00:32come to the cemeteries, but if we talk about a month ago,
00:37there was so much fear and so much trouble on their faces,
00:43that if the son has died, then the father used to say,
00:46take some money and do his last rites, or bury him in the graveyard.
00:50In this way, the children were afraid of the death of the father or the mother.
00:55Every person was afraid that if they touch him, he will expire after two days.
01:01This was a very scary environment, in which our team worked very hard.
01:05After that, the way the hospital understood that the team of the big cemetery
01:09is continuously contributing to this kind of work,
01:12so the people of the hospital also started contacting us directly,
01:16the people of the police also started contacting us directly.
01:19So many bodies were such that we had unknown numbers,
01:24but there was no one to contact us.
01:26So our team used to go there and try to talk on those numbers.
01:30Sometimes it happened that they did not pick up the phone.
01:34When we reached their house, we found out that they were in quarantine.
01:38We found out that they had gone somewhere out of fear.
01:40So we have also claimed such bodies and done burial and last rites.
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