In addition to the 123 dead bodies that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar has already received from the triple train collision site in Balasore district since June 2, an additional 39 bodies were ferried in from private hospitals on Wednesday.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar’s mortuaries have the capacity to store only 40 dead bodies at a time. With an overflowing load due to the tragic accident that left 288 dead, five cold storage shipping containers were sourced from Paradip port on the east coastal district of Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to accommodate the bodies, official sources from AIIMS told The Hindu.
Each shipping container has the capacity to hold 20 bodies and is maintained at a temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. “These containers have the capacity to preserve bodies for up to six months,” a senior AIIMS official said. The Ministries of Health and Shipping coordnated to source these containers.
