The Director General of Health Services has confirmed that 46 deaths were reported due to the covid epidemic yesterday (22). Accordingly, the total number of Covid deaths in the country has increased to 1,178. The highest number of corona-infected deaths reported in a single day was recorded yesterday.
More than 500 deaths have been reported in the two-and-a-half months since the third Kovid wave.
At present some hospitals in the island do not even allow the burial of dead bodies. For example, at the Dambulla Hospital alone, the number of bodies has increased by eight in recent days and the mortuary has had to be kept outside without a refrigerator. Until PCR tests are performed and the results are available. Sources at the Dambulla Hospital say that some of the bodies were decomposed when the results came.
The same was reported at the Colombo National Hospital and the Homagama Hospital.
The situation is similar at the Matale Hospital. So far forty cases of covid infection have been reported from the Matale district alone. The bodies of other people who died at the hospital, as well as those who died of covid infection, had to be kept in the same morgue.
At present, there are about 10 corpses in the Matale Hospital which are to be PCR / PCR and the results are not in the refrigerators. Because only eight corpses can be kept in the morgue here. A mobile freezer was brought to the Matale Hospital last night (22) to control the situation. As of yesterday, it was not installed.
A Dambulla hospital employee said that it has been proposed to buy a mobile freezer for the Dambulla hospital in the future as well.