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Subhash Karki has been supervising the cremation of dead bodies for the last three years along the bank of Bagmati River near the holy Lord Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. But never in his life Karki, who was appointed a year ago the chief coordinator of the electric crematorium run by the Pashupati Area Development Trust, had thought he would cremate dead bodies day and night.
As the death toll from COVID-19 has been rising rapidly, he has been overworking all along. He reaches the cremation site as early as 6am and remains busy throughout the day managing dead bodies till 11pm. Those employed to burn the dead bodies are overworked as well.
"I have hired extra manpower for three months to cremate the dead bodies and they work in shifts. They work there from the early morning of one day to early morning of another day," Karki told Xinhua. There are three machines -- two electric and one hybrid connected to a wooden pyre -- which are operating day and night at the cremation center, according to the Pashupati Area Development Trust.
"Due to overheating of the machines for continuous burning of dead bodies, we have to stop operating the machines from time to time so that the machines do not break down," said Pradeep Dhakal, member secretary with the development trust. In normal times, a maximum of 18 dead bodies are handled at the electric crematorium per day. "Now, we are burning 30 to 40 dead bodies by using all three machines," said Karki.
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