Air India crash: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to provide on-the-spot death certificate to victims' families
Rajnish Patel, Additional Medical Superintendent, and Alok Pandey, Relief Commissioner, addresses the press conference at B J Medical Center in Ahmedabad | Amey Mansabdar
The Gujarat government has put a system in place where by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will provide to families death certificates of people who died in the Air India plane crash immediately, a government official said on Saturday.
"To ensure families don't have to go through administrative problems later, we have put in place a system where Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will provide death certificates on the spot," Alok Pandey, Relief Commissioner, Gujarat government, told reporters.
Even village-level officials will provide families relevant documents immediately so that they don't face succession issues, he added.
A team led by deputy collector has been set up to communicate with the relatives of foreign nationals who died in the crash, according to Pandey. Most of them are expected to reach here by Sunday afternoon, he said.
Dr Rajnish Patel, additional superintendent of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, said they have DNA match of 11 victims so far. Mortal remains of three victims were handed over by Saturday evening.
"This is a slow process that has to be done meticulously," said Patel.
Any family member who has given DNA sample or any other relative can come with ID card or some document that can establish family relationship, and collect the mortal remains.
Arrangements have been made such that ambulances will be escorted with a police escort to their villages.
Even more than two days after the crash, authorities were still not able to provide the exact death figures.
There were 242 on board the London Gatwick bound flight on Thursday, including crew. Only one passenger survived.
The plane had crashed into buildings housing students from BJ Medical College. The exact number of victims on ground remains uncertain.
Dr Dhaval Ganeti president of junior doctors association of BJ Medical College, told news agency PTI earlier that 270 bodies had been brought to the Civil Hospital from the crash site.
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