Hospital San José announces purchase of “mortuary container” and calls to avoid morbidity



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The director of the San José Hospital, Luis Escobar, denied that corpses are being left in the corridors of the enclosure, as they stated on social networks after the dissemination of a series of photographs, and criticized the “morbid” dissemination of the images.

In a press conference this morning, although he confirmed that the photos are real, he denied that they are “accumulating in the corridors” and clarified that correspond to the Pathological Anatomy Unit of the establishment, “where the bodies are deposited”.

To complement that task, they are also in process to acquire “a camera, a container, mortuary, in order to properly handle these corpses “in the context of the current situation, he announced.

In as much, it discarded that the corpses that are shown correspond only to deaths by Covid-19, as it was also guessed on social networks: “Not so, part of them are deceased by coronavirus, but let’s also not forget that people die for other reasons.”

He specified that yesterday there were 11 deaths in the hospital, five of which had confirmed contagion of coronavirus. Nine of them have already been removed, he said.

Until this morning, meanwhile, 21 bodies are kept in the compound, about triple the number that they usually handle daily in the unit.

Against the “morbid” of the photos

Regarding the filtering of the images, he strongly reproached that “You should not act this way, it is terribly painful to act morbid and feast on a painful situation.”

In this regard, he confirmed that a summary Because, in the event that an official took the photos, “he is committing an act that threatens administrative integrity.”



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