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SRH Morgue Dead, But Being Revived
posted (August 7, 2019)

And, moving now to another health controversy, since March, the Southern Regional Hospital's morgue has not been functioning. It has caused great inconvenience and pain to families whose primary concern is to properly store the bodies of their loved ones. Today we asked Minister Marin for an update and he says the ministry is providing transportation for families who need to take their dead to PG or Belmopan.

Hon. Pablo Marin - Health Minister
"As soon as the morgue went down we had to do an estimate and send the proposals, it is already out there and a tender group won it, it will take about 60 days if I am not mistaken and it should be coming in I think next Thursday or Friday the 15th I think they mentioned to me, it is already there, we have already bought the morgue and not only for Western Regional for Cayo but for the Southern Regional but we already bought two of them, the situation is and I was mad about it because the person that put that sticker on the glass should have mentioned also that we are doing things where there is a death in the family we can transport and we were paying for transportation to go to PG or send it to Belmopan so there was something in place to be done." 

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