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Monday afternoon 15 minutes news about the disturbed activity of the crematorium in Kėdainiai reached the editorial office. The source reported that the relatives of the deceased had to wait in line for about a week for cremation, so the broken crematorium generated confusion: it was alleged that around fifty corpses had been brought in for cremation at that time, and due to the disorders, they were all returned. The crematorium is said to have collapsed indefinitely.
Is all this true 15 minutes asked journalist Bernardas Vilkelis, director of AB K2 LT, which manages the Lithuanian Crematorium, who recently 15 minutes in a given interview, he hoped that cremation would soon become the traditional way of saying goodbye. The director confirmed the news that the crematorium had indeed broken down, but declined to comment further; He recommended contacting the company spokesperson.
A representative of the company responsible for communication promptly provided responses to the part 15 minutes questions from journalists.
“At the Lithuanian crematorium in Kėdainiai yesterday (November 8 – Aut. Past), during the weekly monitoring of this line, we noticed problems with the operation of the cremation line. Equipment vendors are currently investigating what caused the technical issues so that we can rectify the outage as quickly as possible. We do our best to update the operation of the line as soon as possible.
Equipment is complex, so finding out if there’s a fault and fixing it takes time. As soon as we have clearer information on when we can resume cremation services on this line, we will notify you immediately. Currently, the prevention of our second line is being completed, which will start operating in two weeks at the latest, ”said B. Vilkelis in his response.
According to him, the cremation services for today and this week have been suspended and no new orders are being accepted.
Therefore, today we are solving the situation of the closest cremation orders. We contacted family and service companies with whom we work directly. We seek the most favorable solution in this situation. For people who can wait, we will perform cremation services as soon as the technical issues are resolved. We direct those relatives who are very sensitive to the question of time to the crematoria operating in Latvia or Poland.
We plan that in the future the new cremation line at the Kėdainiai crematorium, the design of which we have already announced before, will help us avoid such unpleasant situations, ”said the director of the company that manages the crematorium.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nootr./Bernardas Vilkelis
The Kėdainiai crematorium is the first building of this purpose in Lithuania. It is located in the Kėdainiai Industrial Park, where there is also a free economic zone. The location in Kėdainiai was not chosen by chance either: it is the center of Lithuania. The first cremation took place in late 2011.
Earlier 15 minutes B. Vilkelis, the head of the crematorium, has stated that in the first year of activity there were several cremations per day (the duration of a cremation is up to 3 hours), sometimes there was no work at all and recently there were more than 30 cremations of deceased per day. The work is carried out in shifts, from Monday to Saturday 24 hours a day, depending on the number of orders. The process itself, as B. Vilkelis has said, can take place continuously from a technical point of view.
“During the quarantine, the demand for the service grew rapidly: people were no longer allowed to organize traditional goodbyes, they were forced to choose cremation and organize funerals after the end of the quarantine.” However, all life was not standard at the time, so people had no complaints about it. Especially since the wait was not very long, we provided the service to all applicants within 3-4 days ” 15 minutes It is said by B. Vilkelis.
From the beginning of the crematorium activity until November of this year, a total of more than 30 thousand jobs were carried out at the Lithuanian crematorium. cremation. This year it is planned to carry out more than 7 thousand of them. (Up to 10,000 cremations per year can be performed on the two currently available German lines), which is almost 20%. of all deaths (about 40 thousand people die every year in Lithuania). In the first year of operation, this percentage was only 3.5 percent.
In the Lithuanian crematorium in 2020 3,975 cremations were carried out in the first half of the year; the number of cremations increased by 67 percent. compared to the same period last year. According to B. Vilkelis, almost 80 percent was used. available capacity.
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