Where is the hospital morgue?

It is a place where hospitals, funeral homes or areas park bodies. It may be a room, a floor or an independent building. Morgues Some morgues have refrigerators. After death, the body is rarely cremated immediately, but will be parked in the morgue for two or three days. The reason is to give future generations enough time to arrange funeral ceremonies.

To ensure that the deceased did not fake his death before burial. The identity of the deceased is unknown, which requires family autopsy or DNA fingerprint analysis. The cause of death is unknown, and the family asked the pathologist for an autopsy. The police need a cause of death investigation. Local customs require special procedures, such as petrochemical or antiseptic treatment.

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If there are no special circumstances, the hospital should notify the funeral parlour in the jurisdiction to reclaim it and cremate it within 2 hours. For those who died of infectious diseases, the hospital should promptly report to the health administrative department for special treatment of the remains, and then notify the funeral home to pick them up and cremate them.

If it is really necessary for people from other places (outside the county administrative area) to transport the body of the deceased after his death in the hospital back to his place of residence due to special circumstances, it must be approved by the local county civil affairs department before being released. Hospital morgues are not allowed to be contracted to private owners.

The mortuary is managed by the general affairs section so as to be on call. Responsible for receiving and keeping the bodies of patients who died after treatment. To receive a corpse, there should be a corpse cooking list and a corpse registration card filled out by the subordinate department, indicating the time of death, name, gender and address. When collecting the body, you should pay the money to the body collection department according to the regulations, and open the door to collect the body with the receipt of the body collection.