Cold rooms are installed again in a hospital in Manaus to store the bodies of victims of Covid-19
Structures were set up for the first time in April, after the collapse in the state's health and funeral systems.
By Matheus Castro, G1 AM
12/31/2020 12:26 PM Updated 2020-12-31T15: 36: 03.164Z
1 of 2 Manaus Hospital again has a cold room to store the bodies of victims of Covid-19 - Photo: Matheus Castro / G1 AM
Manaus Hospital again has a cold room to store the bodies of victims of Covid-19 - Photo: Matheus Castro / G1 AM
The cold rooms, used to store the bodies of the dead by Covid-19 in hospitals in Manaus, during the first peak of the disease in Amazonas, were re-installed at the Hospital Pronto-Socorro 28 de Agosto this Thursday (31).
The structures were assembled, for the first time, in April, after the collapse in the state's health and funeral systems. As of Wednesday (30), 5,258 deaths have been recorded as a result of the disease across the Amazon.
According to the State Department of Health (SES-AM), while permanent structures for the allocation of bodies are being installed, the Government will preventively place temporary structures to support hospitals in the packaging of bodies of patients who die victims of the disease.
The secretariat also confirmed that other cold chambers are expected to be installed in the João Lúcio and Platão Araújo hospitals in the coming days.
In a note, SES reported that at Hospital 28 de Agosto, where the morgue already has a mortuary chamber, shelves will be installed to increase the capacity for receiving bodies. In the other two hospitals, which do not have a chamber, the engineering team is studying the best way to implement the permanent structure.
Opening of new graves
The rise of Covid-19 cases in Manaus also made the city government need to prepare new areas in cemeteries to bury the dead victims of the disease.
At the Tarumã Cemetery, there are only 80 more places left to receive deaths from the new coronavirus - it was there that mass burials took place in ditches during the peak of the disease, in April and May.
On Wednesday (30), city officials had to prepare another area in the Cemetery of Tarumã to receive dead by Covid. In this area, another 1,026 will be made available.
2 of 2 Hospital Pronto-Socorro 28 de Agosto again has a camera to store the bodies of victims of Covid-19 - Photo: Matheus Castro / G1 AM