{"id":112262,"date":"2021-03-03T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112262"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:40:13","slug":"circular-on-burial-of-covid-19-victims-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/03\/circular-on-burial-of-covid-19-victims-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular on burial of COVID-19 victims issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

he circular containing the guidelines with regard to the burial of COVID-19 victims has been issued, the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some key guidelines are as follows,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • The relatives of the deceased should inform the Director\/ Head of the health care institution (Where the death has occurred) of their desire to bury the corpse without delay.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    • The Director of the hospital\/ Head of the health care institution should obtain a written request from relatives for burial.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
      • The relatives need to provide a coffin in advance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        • It is the duty of the director\/ Head of health care institution to transport the corpse in a coffin provided by the relatives to a designated location in Colombo Institute of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology (office of JMO) \/ BH Welikanda where the corpse will be received by the designated officer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
          • The vehicle transporting the corpse to “Nachchikuda pier” will leave daily at 5.30 a.m. from the designated receiving center nominated by the DGHS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            • Corpse carried by authorized officers will be handed over to the respective authority at the “Nachchikuda pier” which is supervised by the area MOH representative PHI.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
              • Burial will take place by the facilitation and coordination of the Police\/Security personnel at an Island earmarked by the Government of Sri Lanka in the presence of relatives, MOH his representative PHI of the area of burial.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                • Religious activities are permitted only at hospital.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                  • The relatives or unauthorized persons are not permitted to obtain photographs, video and video calls in the health care institution\/s.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                    • Only two relatives are permitted to be present at the burial.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                      Courtesy The Daily Mirror he circular containing the guidelines with regard to the burial of COVID-19 victims has been issued, the Health Ministry said. Some key guidelines are as follows, The relatives of the deceased should inform the Director\/ Head of the health care institution (Where the death has occurred) of their desire to bury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}