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Various repercussions have generated a letter to the director in Las Últimas Noticias, which accounts for the situation that some funeral homes are going through with respect to Covid-19 coronavirus.
The author of the letter is Francisco Castillo, owner of the Castillo de La Florida Funeral Company, who reported that “our union is a very important and invisible link in this pandemic.”
“Besides living with the virus every day, we have to deal with the lack of respect towards us on the part of the hospitals, which give us deceased with death certificates without cause of Covid-19, but when we get to remove the bodies they tell us that they have tested positive for updated PCR“He denounced.
Castillo described the situation as “tremendous irresponsibility”, handing over infected bodies without informing the situation adequately.
In addition, the owner of the funeral reported that they must also deal with the Civil Registry, since “does not give us priority to register deaths and make us wait up to three hours, even with the deceased on top of the float“
Finally, he explained that they must go in person to the police station to get the safe conducts, so these situations have generated anger and frustration because of “the irresponsibility that the authorities are having with people who work with death.”
To Castillo’s sayings, those of Pedro Jorquera, from the Castillo de Chillán Funeral Home, are added, who told DNA that at the time of the removal of bodies “we are protected the same, even if there is no confirmation of Covid-19”.
“It cannot be that they leave us the responsibility of doing this process without the necessary protection., when should the hospital or the Seremi de Salud, where also the whole family should be infected and the deceased person is not isolated, ”he said.
