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Hospitals run out of body bags as mortuaries overflow, union warns
GMB says: ‘Porters are inundated with bodies, which are now wrapped in sheets’
The funeral in the Eternal Gardens Muslim Burial Ground, Chislehurst of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, from Brixton, south London, who died alone in King's College Hospital in the early hours of Monday after testing positive for the coronavirus.
TWO hospitals serving almost half a million people in London and Surrey have run out of body bags as the coronavirus death toll mounts, according to GMB today.
More than 50 people have died from the coronavirus at the Epsom & St Helier University Trust’s two general hospitals.
Porters have told GMB that they are being “traumatised” by having to wrap bodies in sheets, risking being infected themselves.
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