Romanian Church offers chapels as morgues for overflowing hospitals

Bucharest, October 29, 2021

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The Archdiocese of Bucharest of the Romanian Orthodox Church is offering its chapels in hospitals and cemeteries to be used as morgues as COVID-attributed deaths are on the rise.

The Archdiocese’s press release was published by the Basilica News Agency:

Following the dramatic escalation of the situation in the hospitals treating Covid-19 patients in Bucharest and given the fact that the places of temporary storage of the bodies of the deceased have become insufficient in the morgues of these hospitals, the Archdiocese of Bucharest responds to requests for help and makes available the outside hospital chapels, the mortuary chapels of the nearby parishes and the chapels of the parish cemeteries in the immediate vicinity.

The Church expresses its solidarity with medical institutions and authorities facing the toughest challenge of the pandemic so far and appreciates the efforts of doctors and all healthcare staff who are fighting to save the lives of seriously ill patients.

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10/29/2021

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