City Government of Davao / MANILA BULLETIN
The city government in a statement on Tuesday, Feb. 9 said the newly-completed crematorium is located at the Wireless Cemetery and can cater four cadavers per day. Charges for cremation services will be free, it said.
It added that the construction of the city crematorium has a budget allotment of P14.850 million under the Public Service Enhancement Program of the city and a portion of the Bayanihan 1 Grant from the national government.
On Monday, Mayor Sara Duterte said during her Special Hour over Davao City Disaster Radio the crematorium only caters to COVID-19 patients but will accommodate other cadavers once the pandemic is over.
Published January 3, 2021, 9:25 AM
DAVAO CITY – The families of patients, who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), have been told to immediately facilitate the cremation of their relatives’ remains to free up space at the hospital’s mortuary.
Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) (Photo courtesy of SPMC’s Facebook page / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN)
SPMC Officer-in-Charge Ricardo Audan said disclosed to The Manila Bulletin that the remains of at least nine COVID-19 victims have yet to be claimed from the hospital mortuary and cremated as of Saturday, January 2.
Audan pointed out that the many of the COVID-19 fatalities have remained unclaimed because many of their relatives, themselves, have been infected with the coronavirus.