by Nimfa Estrellado September 22, 2021 Quezon Medical Center (Photo from their FB Page) LUCENA CITY - The Lucena city government and the Que...
September 22, 2021
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LUCENA CITY - The Lucena city government and the Quezon provincial government immediately responded to the burial of the bodies reportedly piled up in the morgue of the Quezon Medical Center.
In a report by Lucena City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Janet Gendrano to the Calabarzon Regional Inter-Agency Task Force Against Covid-19, it said that after receiving the report from the QMC head office on September 6 the city government immediately wrote to the Department of Health (DOH) for the corresponding permission to bury only the corpses instead of waiting for the cremation schedule on them.
He said that due to the increase in the number of casualties in Covid-19, there was a pile-up at the only crematorium site in the province, which delayed the cremation of the corpses from the hospital.
Gendrano added that there was also coordination between the provincial government, the Department of the Interior and Local Government and other local governments in the province to retrieve the other bodies from the hospital and bury them in their respective towns.
In a statement, Dir. Eduardo Janairo, regional director of DOH Region 4A, that they immediately addressed such problem. But he said most of the relatives of those who died in Covid-19 want its bodies to be cremated.
He said that due to the lack of a crematorium site, the corpses can be sealed in the body bag as well as the coffin where they will be placed and it is necessary to bury them immediately.
According to Janairo, it is worrying that the corpses are not immediately retrieved from the morgue because they can be the source of various diseases.
The Quezon provincial government said the incident was under control and there were no bodies piled up in the QMC.
“Right now, controlled na, wala na kaming mga bodies at ang ginagawa lang namin, pinawe-welding namin yung mga coffin dahil dapat sealed yan,” Gov. Danilo Suarez in his interview with ABS-CBN News.
According to Suarez, the number of deaths in Covid-19 was not expected so the morgue and crematorium in the province were filled.
He said they are now trying to get a portable crematorium for patients who died due to Covid-19.
This September, there was a sudden increase in Covid-19 cases in various parts of Quezon due to the filling of some healthcare facilities in the province.
According to Dr. Rolando Padre, chief of hospital of QMC, did not expect an increase in the death toll due to Covid-19 as of September, so their morgue was filled with only two mortuary freezers.
As of Sunday, September 19, there were 2,536 active Covid-19 cases in Quezon.
On May 12 additional patients were reported to have died bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 1,147 due to Covid-19 disease.
The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force Against Covid-19 ensured proper coordination with local governments and hospitals to prevent the incident.
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