Under the Ministry of Health’s regulations, people who die of Covid-19-related causes can be buried or cremated in line with strict virus prevention steps.
An Phuoc Vien Cremation Centre
The bodies need to be buried or cremated within 24 hours since after the patients die. Only medical staff and patients’ relatives who are guided with the virus prevention regulations and provided with safety equipment are allowed to join the burial or cremation ceremony. The whole burial and cremation areas are quarantined and sterilised before and after receiving the bodies.
However, the ministry said that the cremation needs to be prioritised to reduce possible infection.
Danang City’s Department of Health has instructed to cremate all patients who die of the pandemic at An Phuong Vien Cremation Centre in Hoa Vang District.
The department noted that in cases, the same regulations are also applied to other patients who are being treated at quarantined areas of Danang Hospital, Danang C Hospital, Da Nang Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Hospital and Danang Oncology.
Currently, An Phuoc Vien is the only cremation centre in Danang which can handle 12 bodies maxim a day.
Vietnam has to date confirmed six deaths connected to Covid-19, including four patients at Danang Hospital and Danang Oncology hospitals and the two others at Hue Central Hospital. These patients are all elderly and have different serious other diseases such as heart and kidney problems.
