Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte is mulling to build a city-owned crematory at an estimated cost of P12 million.
She said there is a need to build another crematorium after seeing challenges experienced by the three private crematoria on rendering services to coronavirus-related cadavers.
Speaking live over the Davao City Disaster Radio on Friday, Mayor Inday said the facility will be built at the wireless cemetery.
“Naka-encounter ta og challenge aning three ka crematoriums nato kay usahay, madaot so medyo motaas ang atoang pila sa ubang crematorium because naay usahay mag down ilang machine (We are encountering challenges with the three crematoriums because their machines experience problems. That is why there are queues in other crematoriums),” Mayor Sara said.
Under the current situation, the city government covers all expenses for the cremation of the cadavers of patients with coronavirus-related deaths.
Mayor Sara said cremation complies with the guidelines of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Epidemiologist and Infectious Disease Specialist to cremate or bury the cadavers of patients with coronavirus-related deaths within 12-hours after death.
Currently, there are 63 cadavers of which 14 are still for cremation. All of these are being paid for by the city government as support for the bereaved families. CIO
