The State government on Wednesday informed Telangana High Court that all 62 freezer boxes to preserve bodies at Gandhi hospital morgue were fully functional, observing that there were no deficiencies or mishandling of bodies received there.
In a report furnished before a bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar, which took up a report over bodies decaying at the morgue due to dysfunctional freezer boxes published by The Hindu suo moto as PIL petition, the government said recently the 16 boxes were examined. Eight freezer boxes which had become very old have been replaced with eight freezer boxes acquired during COVID-19, the Gandhi hospital superintendent said in the report.
Eight other freezer boxes received during COVID-19 had been kept in a separate location in the vicinity of the morgue as a stand-by for usage if more were required than the 62 functional boxes already available in the morgue, the report said. As on Monday (November 6), there were 16 bodies in the mortuary. Seven out of the 16 bodies were unidentified and were not claimed by anyone so far.
