Sri Lankan chef aboard a merchant vessel dies

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A Sri Lankan chef aboard a merchant vessel died due to a heart attack today, the Navy said.

The Navy said it assisted to disembark the corpse of the chef who passed away whilst serving aboard MV Grace, a merchant ship registered in Sri Lanka.

The Navy has handed over the body to the local agent of the shipping company, the navy said.

The deseased was identified as DJC Kumarasinghe who served as the chef of MV Grace.

Since this person died suddenly from a heart stroke, the local agent of the ship Marine International (pvt) Ltd. had requested assistance for disembarking of the body.

After arrival of MV Grace to Colombo port, responding to the request of local agent of this ship under the approval of Ministry of Denfence, Navy’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Unit attached to the Western Naval Command sterilized the disembarked dead body following all healthy precautions and standard procedures and handed over the corpse to the ship’s local agent.

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L de Silva Thursday, 23 April 2020 05:56 PM

This is very sad. Why was the person not sent immediately to a hospital if he was experiencing symptoms of heart failure / attack? Is it because merchant ships and their passengers are not permitted by governments all over the world to disembark due to Covid19? I hope this is not the case. The lives of people matter. He could be a father, son or husband, the sole bread winner in a family. The Government is answerable for such deaths. Why are governments all over the world, treating these people of merchants ships like pariahs? They do such an enormous and silent service to ensure goods are transported all over the world and this is the treatment meted out to them!? Totally inhumane and unacceptable. There needs to be stringent measures put in place to take people for medical treatments from such ships, immediately.

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