City to cover burial, cremation costs of COVID-19 fatalities
CONFIRMED OR SUSPECTED CASES
THE Dagupan City government will pay for costs of burial or cremation of persons confirmed or suspected to have died of COVID-19 if the family of the deceased is indigent.
This was contained in the resolution passed by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during its special session on April 27 that authorized Mayor Brian Lim to enter into a memorandum of agreement with crematoriums and funeral service providers handling the remains of a suspected or confirmed positive for COVID-19, for the payment of services.
The measure, deemed consistent with Proclamation No. 929, series of 2020 that placed Luzon under the Enhanced Community Quarantine and Lim’s Executive Order No. 26, series of 2020 placing entire Dagupan City under Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine, and consistent with the protocol set by the Department of Health, prescribes guidelines for the handling of remains of a deceased suspected, or confirmed positive of COVID-19, particularly the burial, but preferably the cremation of the remains within 12 hours from the time of death.
It provides for a situation when survivors of the deceased suspected or confirmed positive of COVID-19 are not financially capable to bury or cremate the remains within 12 hours from the time of death.
In this regard, in compliance with the Secretary of Interior and Local Government’s declaration that the costs of burial or cremation of a dead person shall be borne by the nearest kin and that if the family is not financially capable of defraying the expenses or if the deceased has no kin, the cost shall be borne by the city or municipal government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). (Leonardo Micua)
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