Temporary Morgues are Being Built Across UK Due to Unprecedented Increase in Excess Deaths

 

These temporary morgues, which consist of large shipping containers, are being set up in public places like office parks, the Mirror reported. 

According to The Sun, vehicles from hospitals such as Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire and Royal Liverpool Hospital delivered bodies to the council gritting yard, which has a refrigeration unit guarded 24/7. 

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust said, “We can confirm that we have opened additional mortuary capacity to accommodate an increase in need across the local community.” 

“Our mortuary service operates to the national standards treating the deceased and loved ones with dignity and respect at all times regardless of location. All our additional capacity provides privacy and has 24/7 security,” it continued. 

Meanwhile, two additional units have been set up at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. 

The Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which operates the Royal Liverpool Hospital, has stated, “It is common practice for mortuaries to have purpose-built temporary systems available. 

“This ensures that patients continue to be treated with dignity and respect, in facilities which are equivalent to a permanent mortuary, during periods of increased demand. 

Two of these systems, which meet standards set out by the Human Tissue Authority, have been deployed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital,” it continued. 

It is not just UK. 

Funeral homes in Norway sound the alarm as they struggle to store all the dead people as a result of Norway’s skyrocketing excess mortality rate. 

The number of people needing funeral services in Trondheim City, Central Norway, has risen dramatically, according to the local newspaper Dagbladet Trondheim. 

Lars Svanholm, the fourth-generation general manager of Trondheim’s largest funeral home, Svanholm & Vigdal Gravferd, has said that the funeral home’s century-long history has never seen anything like the current number of deaths. 

“It is a marked increase, and we have not experienced anything like it in four generations,” Lars Svanholm told Dagbladet. 

“We have not had such an increase since the company started in 1922,” said Svanholm to local tv. In order to deal with the increasing number of dead, they have opened a cool emergency room in a garage.

GRTWT.