{"id":41672,"date":"2020-08-06T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/south-africas-funeral-parlors-are-being-turned-into-makeshift-mortuaries\/"},"modified":"2020-08-06T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:30:00","slug":"south-africas-funeral-parlors-are-being-turned-into-makeshift-mortuaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/south-africas-funeral-parlors-are-being-turned-into-makeshift-mortuaries\/","title":{"rendered":"#South Africa\u2019s funeral parlors are being turned into makeshift mortuaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#South Africa\u2019s funeral parlors are being turned into makeshift mortuaries<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 6, 2020 |<\/span> 11:30am <\/p>\n

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\n An\u00a0undertaker\u00a0of\u00a0Sopema\u00a0Funerals\u00a0changes into his suit before transporting the body of a deceased person ahead of the funeral service in Soweto, south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/span>
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\n JOHANNESBURG \u2013 Behind Monageng Legae\u2019s funeral parlor in the South African township of Soweto sits a refrigerated shipping container made to store chilled goods. Now it stores bodies.<\/p>\n

Funeral businesses like Legae\u2019s Sopema Funerals have taken such measures to cope with the influx of bodies into their morgues as South Africa\u2019s coronavirus cases rise above half a million, with deaths at around 9,000.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by coffins in his showroom and wearing a protective mask and visor, Legae told Reuters that he handled 85 funerals in June and 75 in July, compared with 30 a month this time last year.<\/p>\n

The cost of the container, along with outlays on a temporary outdoor waiting area, more staff and an additional night shift, has helped wipe out additional revenues.<\/p>\n

Legae said the government should do more for under-pressure funeral parlors. \u201cPeople forget that this industry is actually playing a pivotal role.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Names of deceased persons are seen pasted on the body storage facilities at\u00a0Sopema\u00a0Funerals.<\/span>Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Funeral directors say that beyond the spike in deaths from COVID-19 \u2013 the disease associated with the coronavirus \u2013 they have to cope with coffin shortages and delays in the issuance of death certificates.<\/p>\n

Data showed in July that South Africa had 59 percent more deaths than would normally be expected between early May and mid-July, suggesting more people were dying of COVID-19 than official figures show.<\/p>\n

Amid the scramble, funeral parlors aren\u2019t always able to balance strict regulations with the expected sensitivity: there have been reports in local media<\/a> of the wrong bodies being interred.<\/p>\n

Stephen Fonseca, regional forensics adviser for Africa at the International Committee of the Red Cross, said South Africa\u2019s experience should serve as a warning for other nations as the continent\u2019s cases near 1 million.<\/p>\n

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A worker walks past a shipping container which is used as a mortuary at\u00a0Avbob\u00a0Funerals in Midrand, South Africa.<\/span>Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOnce a country is facing a COVID-19 surge, it is too late to plan for how to manage mass casualties in a way that is both safe for the body handlers and dignified for the families of the deceased,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Even Avbob, the country\u2019s biggest funeral provider by market share that was established during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, has had to make changes to cope with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

It has buried some 25 percent of the country\u2019s coronavirus dead and saw a 60 percent rise in burials in July, Pieter van der Westhuizen, its general<\/a> manager funeral service, said, adding Avbob has set up 13 mortuaries in shipping containers and is building 4 more.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we didn\u2019t \u2026 we might have ran into trouble,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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