India, March 10 -- The public health department will install new mortuary cabinets at the Aundh District Hospital (ADH) in Pune, health minister Prakash Abitkar informed the Maharashtra legislative assembly on Monday. The new cabinets will be purchased using funds from the district planning committee (DPC) after the existing units are formally written off, Abitkar said while responding to a question raised by MLA Shankar Jagtap.

Abitkar said that the mortuary (morgue) of the hospital currently has three mortuary cabinets that can collectively store 10 bodies. However, two out of these three cabinets-each with a capacity of four bodies-have become extremely old and are now beyond repair.

"Currently, only one mortuary cabinet with a capac...