Eyewitness: AlexCrawfordSky observes the bravery of the volunteers who've put themselves on the frontline of the war against COVID19 in India
Volunteers pick up India's COVID dead as crisis mountsThe massive surge in coronavirus cases in India has brought out a very dark side of humanity where it's literally a fight to survive; where black marketeers are profiting off people's misery and hiking up the price of oxygen and cylinders as the sick scrap and barter for life.The bravery of the volunteers who've put themselves on the frontline of this war against the virus is quite something to behold.
"It is heart breaking but if we break down, how could we help? There's a shortage of ambulances, people are dying at home, nobody is there to take the bodies from home. And if people like us break apart then how are people going to survive? We cannot stop. Yes, we also feel the emotions but we can't even cry in front of people because that's what we have to do, all the day."
Hours after we leave him for the day, he tells us his best friend, who was only 25-years-old like himself, had succumbed to the virus after being treated for a week in hospital.When we're with him, he and the other volunteers are dressed in minimal PPE, with flimsy, almost transparent white overalls, gloves, visors and masks - and in this blistering heat this is suffocatingly uncomfortable.
Her elder daughter Simran Kaur asks the volunteers if they'll be allowed to turn up at the crematorium for the funeral without PPE. The volunteers, who've done this many times before, reassure her it will be allowed and they'll help with the making of the pyre and organising the Hindu rituals for them.There's an undignified struggle to get the corpse down the tiny staircase but somehow they manage it between them, all sweating profusely.
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