Mumbai: Since second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, Syed Munir Qamruddin, a Mumbai gravedigger stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves.
“I’m not scared of COVID, I’ve worked with courage. It’s all about courage, not about fear,” said the 52-
Qamruddin says he and his colleagues are working around the clock to bury COVID-19 victims.
“This is our only job. Getting the body, removing it from the ambulance, and then burying it,” he said, adding that he hasn’t had a holiday in a year.
Though it is the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Qamruddin said “My work is really hard,” and “I feel thirsty for water. I need to dig graves, cover them with mud, need to carry dead bodies. With all this work, how can I fast?”
Yet Qamruddin’s faith keeps him going, and he doesn’t expect aid from the government anytime soon.
“Our trust in our mosque is very strong,” he said. “The government is not going to give us anything. We don’t even want anything from the government.”
Health systems and crematoriums have been overwhelmed across north India taking the bodies of COVID-19 victims to makeshift crematoriums in parks and parking lots, where bodies are burned on rows and rows of funeral pyres.
(Extracts from Reuters)
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