Karnataka: MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan's team helps cremate bodies of COVID-19 victims
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress legislator Zameer Ahmed Khan is leading a team of 20 volunteers to ensure Corona victims are cremated as per their religious conventions and attended by family members.
His move was taken after witnessing situations of death due to Corona where family members were denied a chance to pay respects to their deceased relative or the body was not handed over to the family. If nobody assists in conducting the last rites of a Corona victim – regardless of the religion – Khan's team volunteers to help out.
The body of a woman who had died of Corona infection in Chamarajpet – which is Khan's constituency – was kept at a private hospital. Her body, however, was not claimed by any of her relatives. Khan paid the treatment fees to the hospital and oversaw the cremation of the body as per the woman's religion.
The incident led to the formation of the team in the city. Khan said that his close aides Ayub, Farooq, Bala, Murthy and Amir were among the 20 people in the team. The cremation of more than 120 people has been conducted since the imposition of lockdown from March 28 till now, he added.
The team members have earned the appreciation of the people by assisting in conducting the last rites, themselves wearing PPE as per government guidelines and taking other precautionary steps doing so. That they follow the convention of each victim's religion has been further lauded.
Ration supply to 40k families
“The human race is said to go through such turmoil once every century. In our times, it is the Corona attack. We should, therefore, do our best to help one another out. There is no point in doing anything after the time has lapsed,” Khan reminded.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati, the legislator said that he prayed that nobody dies of Corona attack. “I pray that even my enemy should not be in a situation where the family members do not even get to bid a final farewell to a deceased person,” he added.
Further, he said that the poor people and daily wage earners had to go without work during lockdown. “I have, therefore, distributed the ration kits given by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to 40,000 families in my constituency. About 3,000 people were given 5 kg of vegetable packets each for about a month and a half. I also funded the provision of food and water for 14,000 people living in sealed down places,” he said.
Referring to the Ramdhan month, Khan said that he had distributed fruits among 5,000 people for Iftar daily. “I had also arranged for the Sehri and Iftar for people under quarantine, since our money should be used for the good of the people at the appropriate time,” the legislator stressed.
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Delhi HC reserves order on doctors' plea against Ramdev over Coronil
New Delhi, May 21: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea by several doctors’ associations against yoga exponent Ramdev over his alleged "unsubstantiated" claim about 'Coronil' being a "cure" for COVID-19 and not just an immunity booster.
The plea forms part of a 2021 lawsuit by doctors' associations against the yoga guru, his aide Acharya Balkrishna as well as Patanjali Ayurveda founded by Ramdev, and seeks an interim relief of removal of statements from various media platforms with respect to the claim.
According to the lawsuit, Ramdev made unsubstantiated claims about 'Coronil' being a cure for COVID-19, contrary to the licence granted to the drug for merely being an “immuno-booster”.
The senior counsel appearing for the plaintiffs also sought a direction to restrain the defendants from making further similar statements.
Ramdev's senior lawyer said he was bound by the undertaking given in the Supreme Court in the case concerning advertisements of Patanjali products, adding that he was willing to make a similar statement in the high court as well.
The plaintiffs' senior lawyer, however, urged the court to pass an order on the interim application stating that the undertaking before the apex court was with regard to not making "causal statements" that are not in compliance with the law.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said the matter before him concerned "specific instances" and reserved the order.
Three Resident Doctors' Association of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Rishikesh, Patna and Bhubaneswar as well as Association of Resident Doctors, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh; Union of Resident Doctors of Punjab (URDP); Resident Doctors' Association, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, and Telangana Junior Doctors' Association, Hyderabad had moved the high court in 2021 against Ramdev and others.
In their lawsuit filed through advocate Harshavardhan Kotla, the associations have submitted that the yoga guru, who is a highly influential person, was sowing doubts in the minds of the general public about the safety and efficacy of not only allopathic treatments but also COVID-19 vaccines.
They alleged that the "misinformation" campaign was nothing but an advertisement and marketing strategy to further the sales of the product sold by Ramdev, including 'Coronil', which he claimed to be an alternative treatment for COVID-19.
On October 27, 2021, the high court had issued summons to Ramdev and others on the lawsuit, saying it was not a frivolous matter and a case was “definitely” made out for its institution.
