MB: Selangor to get two more cremators to manage Covid-19 victims
SHAH ALAM: Selangor will get two more cremators soon to speed up cremations for non-Muslim Covid-19 victims.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said currently, only one out of three cremators under the Klang Municipal Council was carrying out cremation services.
“This is one of our efforts to expedite the cremation process in a cost-effective manner.
“Cremation services at the local authority’s crematorium will be carried out with the help of nongovernmental organisations.”
He said burials and cremations of Covid-19 patients were expected to be carried out three times a day following the announcement on the Centralised Management of Covid-19 Victims’ Remains initiative recently.
“We will arrange for cremation to be carried out in the morning, afternoon and evening to reduce the number of Covid-19 victims’ bodies at hospital mortuaries in Selangor.”
Funerals for Covid-19 victims in the state are held once or twice a day, depending on the number of bodies at hospital mortuaries.
More than 20 Covid-19 victims, including non-citizens have been buried through the Centralised Management of Covid-19 Victims’ Remains initiative.
On the two cemeteries that have
been selected for the intitiave, Amirudin said the Section 21 Muslim Cemetery here and Selat Klang Muslim Cemetery in Port Klang still had about 3.64ha of land to bury Covid-19 victims.
On July 17, Amirudin announced the Centralised Management of Covid-19 Victims’ Remains initiative, which aims to reduce the time taken to manage the remains of Covid-19 victims and ease congestion
at Selangor hospitals.
He said the initiative involved funeral arrangements for Muslim and non-Muslim Covid-19 victims from Shah Alam Hospital, Sungai Buloh Hospital and Tengku Ampuan
Rahimah Hospital in Klang.
He said the state government had contacted the Foreign Ministry to speed up the identification of foreigners who died of Covid-19 at the three hospitals.