Thursday, July 16, 2009

Cremation orders for Buenos Aires H1N1 victims

ORDINANCE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN

In the city, the dead of influenza A to be cremated "immediately"
This is determined by the Government of Buenos Aires. Is to "preserve the health of the population and prevent the spread of the disease." Furthermore, the bodies of the deceased will be removed "from the place of death" and put them in green bags
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The Buenos Aires government ordered that all persons killed by the influenza virus A (H1N1) are veiled and cremated drawer closed "immediately" to "preserve the health of the population and prevent the spread of the disease, it was learned today.

In an order published in the Official Gazette of the City, the General Directorate of Cemeteries provided, further, that the funeral services companies must remove the bodies of the dead "in the place of death" and put "eco bags" and then introduce them into the coffins.

Resolution 93, which has four items, that "all the dead whose cause of death originates or is the result of the virus that causes influenza A" paid for the crematorium, where they should be immediately cremated.

In addition, ordered the house wakes and funeral services that the bodies be "a veiled drawer closed" because the disease is "a steady increase," according to the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires as "the high transmissibility of the virus .

In this sense, the rule said that the death of a person influenza A "subsists for a period of several hours."

Only one remedy may prevent the realization of the provisions in the resolution of the General Cemetery, signed on July 6 last. The provision cited statements by the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, in which days ago warned that the spread of the virus complicate the situation in regions with poor health and with a high prevalence of underlying medical problems. "

The text also stressed that the July 2 the head of government of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, has signed a decree which stated "the Health Emergency in the City until December 31, 2009."

The resolution stated that according to information provided by the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires, the numbers affected in the City and the metropolitan area has seen recently, a steady increase, "and also mentions" the high transmissibility of virus. "

"In this situation becomes imperative to proceed with the utmost speed to ensure a coordinated and effective action across the Health System of the City of Buenos Aires and a maximum utilization of the resources needed to confront the epidemic," explained the provision.

The decision to apply "security measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in the population, based on Order No. 27590 signed in 1973 and that specifically regulate how they should act in similar cases.

An article in this provision were the cases where it is "mandatory cremation of dead bodies," and include "pestilential diseases, or as a result of major epidemics by the Undersecretary of State for Public Health of the Nation .

"The case of influenza A (H1N1) is a normative reality" of this kind, considered the government of Buenos Aires.

The mandatory nature of the cremation will be used in people who have died in hospitals for infectious diseases, provided there is no formal opposition, valid and legal "to do so.

The order added that "the merits of cremation is given under the care or protection of public health."


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