COVID-19 impact: Hospitals run out of beds, crematoriums struggle to keep up as death toll increases

As COVID-19 related death toll increases, cremation sites and burial grounds struggle to keep up.

As COVID cases continue to rise, getting admitted to hospitals is becoming a major problem. Some cities also had a shortage of Remdesivir and oxygen to treat severely ill patients. Few states have witnessed such a surge in deaths that the municipal author 

Ambulances, carrying bodies of people who died of COVID-19, parked outside the Jahagirpura Crematorium for their last rites, as coronavirus cases surge countrywide, in Surat (Photo | PTI)

A COVID-19 patient receives primary treatment inside an ambulance at the COVID-19 OPD of the Government Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad. (Photo | PTI)

An earthmover is put into service to dig graves for the bodies of COVID-19 victims, amid a surge coronavirus cases, at a graveyard in New Delhi (Photo | PTI)

A police personnel patrols near the Gateway of India area, before the start of the 15-day curfew due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in Mumbai (Photo | PTI)

Health workers shift a stable patient to another ward to create space for critical COVID-19 patients, at Government Civil hospital in Ahmedabad (Photo | PTI)

Health workers and family members, wearing protective suits, perform the last rites of a person who died of COVID-19, at Shakti Nagar Cremation Ground in Jammu (Photo |PTI)

A COVID-19 patient receives primary treatment inside an ambulance at the COVID-19 OPD of the Government Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad (Photo | PTI)

Burial of a person who died of COVID-19, amid a spike in coronavirus cases countrywide, at a graveyard in New Delhi (Photo | PTI)

A health worker take swab samples of passengers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Railway Station, amid spike in Covid-19 cases, in Mumbai (Photo | PTI)

A volunteer offers water to a COVID-19 patient waiting inside an ambulance outside the COVID-19 OPD of the Government Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad. (Photo | PTI)

A person who died of COVID-19 being taken for cremation, amid a spike in coronavirus cases countrywide, at Nigam Bodh Crematorium in New Delhi (Photo | PTI)

Family members and relatives, wearing PPE, perform a ritual during the cremation of a person, who died of COVID-19, at Nigam Bodh Crematorium in New Delhi (Photo |PTI)

A scene outside the COVID-19 OPD at the Government Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad (Photo | PTI)

A woman helps an old lady to wear face mask at Bengaluru City Railway Station amid surge in coronavirus cases (Photo | PTI)

Health workers sort samples during COVID-19 testing of passengers, as coronavirus cases surge across the national capital, at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal in New Delhi (Photo |PTI)

Ambulances lined up outside the COVID-19 OPD at the Government Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad, Wednesday (Photo | PTI)