Given the declaration of health alert at the Ibagué headquarters of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences as a result of the damage caused by the cold room for corpses, the entity requested support from the Mayor’s Office to bury the bodies found there.
In an official letter sent to the Municipal Administration, the entity explains that since July 3 there has been a breakdown in the room where the corpses are stored. In this place there are 40 bodies that have not been claimed by their relatives.
In context: Alert for massive decomposition of corpses in Legal Medicine of Ibagué.
Given this situation, Legal Medicine asked the Mayor’s Office to provide urgent support for state burialtaking into account that some bodies are already decomposing.
“(…) The spread of bad odors is beginning in the headquarters and we have no other means to refrigerate these bodies, Your office is urgently requested to provide support to carry out a state burial,” indicates the document sent by Adriana Lorena Roca, director of the Tolima Section, to the Secretary of Government of Ibagué, Óscar Alexander Berbeo.
Upon request, the official said that Different alternatives are being evaluated to provide a solution to this matter.
“We had communication with the director of Legal Medicine and we have been working trying to find a solution to the eventuality that has arisen in the refrigeration rooms. We hope that in the next few hours we will be able to overcome the contingencyBerbeo said.
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Among the options that are evaluated is the hiring of the required equipment through the declaration of manifest urgency or advance the burial in city cemeteries.