Mumbai?s deadly mortuaries: Bodies stacked atop each other, rats scurrying around, no new technology in morgues

INSIDE the St George Hospital?s mortuary, over five months after his death, Ambaji More?s body has begun to decompose even at 7 degree Celsius. Its skin peeling, the body is wrapped in a white shroud and is stacked on another corpse on a stretcher.
Relatives haven?t come up to claim More?s body since his death on January 18, allowing it to gradually decay. The mortuary, with a capacity of six, was storing 10 bodies at the end of March. One body had to be folded in half and placed near the door due to the lack of space. Crumbs of thermocol left by rats surrounded the bodies.
The condition of other mortuaries in the city is similar, if not worse. All of them struggle with space shortage, the problem sharpening in the monsoon when accident-related deaths peak.
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