Investigation | The reporter visited a number of hospitals, and the outsourcing fee for the mortuary can reach two or three million

　　The recent exposure of the mortuary of the Third Hospital of Peking University to charge high funeral expenses has made many people realize for the first time that the mortuary originally set up in the hospital has already been outsourced to the company.

　　Our reporter visited many hospitals and found that outsourcing of mortuaries is very common.

Affected by the incident, some hospital mortuaries have suspended high-priced projects, and some hospital mortuaries have retained some "selective funeral services".

There are still inextricable links between the outsourcing companies of many hospitals.

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Suspended additional services for some stocks that have been closed

　　Located at the west gate exit of a hospital outside the North Second Ring Road, a row of inconspicuous low rooms is the mortuary, with the sign of Beijing Shoushan Huiming Funeral Service Co., Ltd. hanging on the door.

According to information released by China's public service platform for bidding in April last year, the company won the bid for the hospital's mortuary management project with a transaction value of 660,000 yuan.

　　Walking into the office, the reporter saw related documents such as business licenses, work procedures, and service guidelines hanging on the wall.

"For the time being, we can only collect corpse receipts, corpse bag money, as well as 30 yuan a day for depositing a corpse and 80 yuan for pushing a corpse. There is nothing left." Facing the reporter's inquiry, a staff member was very cautious, " If you go to the mortuary business in the near future, it will cost about a few hundred yuan, and there are no other expenses."

　　"I won't let it go, and the clothes will not be sold for the time being." He said that if it was put in the past, it would cost a few thousand yuan to get a "one-stop" service like the one outside.

The reporter pointed to the business process written on the wall with "3,800 yuan for raising spirits" and asked if it could still be carried out. The other party hesitated for a while and said, "This is basically gone."

　　"Is it because of the high funeral expenses of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University?" As soon as the reporter finished speaking, the staff immediately replied, "Yes, yes!" He said that after the incident was exposed, the mortuary was asked to suspend goods and services. , "It's not the hospital (request), it's the whole Beijing, the whole hospital level is like this..."

　　"Nothing else is allowed. We have sealed the stock." Another staff member said and pointed to the side against the wall.

The reporter found that there, the suspected previous inventory was covered with a white curtain more than 1 meter high.

The staff member said that there have been a lot of inquiries recently, and some people are also worried about what to do if they are not allowed to sell goods.

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Product sales still emphasize voluntary choice

　　"Which department is the patient in? What floor is it?" At an integrated Chinese and Western medicine hospital in the southern part of the city, the staff of the mortuary were also extra vigilant.

He said that now only the most basic businesses can be carried out, such as 30 yuan a day for corpses, 120 yuan for body wraps, and 300 yuan for body bags, and people are lifted from the ward for free.

"It's all priced clearly to see if you need it. Clothes are not sold, it's just a service." In addition, there is a dress that charges 100 yuan. "A farewell ceremony is not enough, there is no farewell hall."

　　A year ago, when the reporter came to visit, there were also shrouds ranging from 2,600 yuan to 10,000 yuan, urns ranging from 2,000 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and a farewell ceremony of about 2,800 yuan.

　　On the eve of Qingming last year, the reporter also visited the mortuary of another tertiary hospital.

Now, staff say all but the government-priced essential services are "selective funeral services".

The reporter asked about the specifics. The other party said that there were shrouds ranging from more than 2,000 yuan to more than 4,000 yuan, urns ranging from a few hundred yuan to seven or eight thousand yuan, and a concierge carrying a spirit of about 3,800 yuan. If the body is wiped with an alcohol towel and clothed, it is 810 yuan. The other is for the deceased to take a bath and wash with warm water, and it costs 3980 yuan.” The staff repeatedly emphasized that these are voluntary choices of the family members.

　　When it comes to the high-priced funeral expenses of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University, the other party said that it is possible to spend tens of thousands of yuan, but in some places it is a "comprehensive number". Management is different."

　　"In that kind of place, there is no way to bargain." Mr. Tu, who handled the funeral for his relatives in the mortuary last year, said that he also spent tens of thousands of yuan at the time, "I later learned that the mortuary is almost always outsourced to companies. They are doing it. Some mortuary staff just saw that the family members were sad and didn't have the heart to look at the project, and they made sales under the banner of "the last ride"." He hopes that the management of the hospital mortuary will be more standardized and more transparent. .

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The contracted project won the bid amount of more than 2 million

　　In fact, it is no secret that mortuaries are outsourced in major hospitals.

　　"In order to strengthen the management of the mortuary in our hospital and improve the quality of funeral services, we will re-tender and purchase the outsourcing services of the mortuary in our hospital." The bidding documents for the funeral service project of a hospital mortuary in Beijing published on the Chinese government procurement website show that the working area of ​​the hospital mortuary is about It is 56 square meters, and there is a farewell room and a duty room.

According to the hospital construction plan, the working area of ​​the mortuary will be adjusted to underground in the future, the area will be increased to about 104 square meters, and there will be one storage room, one farewell room and one duty room.

In the past five years, about 77 people died in the hospital every year.

　　"The equipment and utensils used by the bidder in the process of funeral services, such as low-temperature body storage cabinets, body transport vehicles, etc., shall be resolved by the bidder. or loss.” The document mentioned that the winning bidder must expressly approve the fee, and the winning bidder shall be solely responsible for resolving disputes arising from improper charging, and the winning bidder shall bear the loss caused to the hospital.

　　The reporter saw in the bid-winning announcement released in April 2021 that Beijing Paradise Beyond Funeral Service Co., Ltd. won the bid with a transaction amount of 300,000 yuan.

　　Searching for Beijing Paradise Beyond Funeral Service Co., Ltd. from Tianyancha, the reporter found in the bidding announcement that the company also won the bid for a mortuary contracting service project in a tertiary hospital in January 2021, with a transaction amount of 2.39 million yuan.

　　Such winning bids are not uncommon.

Taking the bid-winning announcement of a hospital mortuary entrusted management project published by the China Government Procurement Network as an example, the bid amount of the supplier, Beijing Shoushan Huiming Funeral Service Co., Ltd., was 2.8 million yuan.

　　"The use area is 440.67 square meters, with 46 corpse cabinets. The bidding unit pays the hospital management fees (including housing, equipment and facilities, energy, furniture usage fees, corpse storage fees and fixed assets depreciation costs), and the hospital provides water, electricity and other energy sources. And fixed line communication, the corresponding cost is included in the management fee." The bidding documents show that the bid evaluation adopts a comprehensive scoring method, and the bidder with the highest score is the winning candidate.

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The winning bid for another company is more than one million

　　According to the bidding rules, there are usually no less than 3 qualified bidders.

On the public service platform for public bidding in China, the announcement on the comparison and selection of mortuary service projects of a hospital in Beijing released in March 2021 mentioned that the minimum management fee is 210,000 yuan per year.

In the announcement of the transaction results, the pre-transaction amount of the first transaction candidate supplier is 1.28 million yuan per year, the pre-transaction amount of the second transaction candidate supplier is 300,000 yuan, and the pre-transaction amount of the third transaction candidate supplier is 860,000 yuan. Yuan.

In the end, Beijing Babaoshan Tianyuan Funeral Service Center won the bid with 1.28 million yuan.

　　Also in 2021, the company won the bid for another tertiary general hospital mortuary contracting service project, with a transaction amount of 1.99 million yuan.

According to the procurement contract, the construction area of ​​the hospital's mortuary mortuary room is 200 square meters (the body storage cabinet can store 36 remains), the farewell room is about 40 square meters, and the office is about 20 square meters.

In 2018 and 2019, about 800 people died each year.

　　In August 2017, the hospital mortuary contracting service project transaction announcement showed that the winning bid of the supplier Beijing Shoushan Huiming Funeral Service Co., Ltd. was 610,000 yuan.

It can be seen from the competitive negotiation documents that the construction area of ​​the mortuary in the hospital is also 200 square meters, and the body storage cabinet can store 36 remains.

The difference is that from 2014 to 2016, the average number of deaths per year was 650.

　　The reporter searched on Tianyancha and found that the company had won the bid for 490,000 yuan in the entrusted management project of another tertiary hospital mortuary in Beijing in January 2019.

The legal representative holds a total of 9 companies, one of which is also a funeral service company.

It is understood that the company won the bid for a mortuary contracting service project in a tertiary general hospital in Beijing in November 2021.

The business scope of a health technology group limited company he worked for includes funeral services and sales of funeral supplies and flowers.

　　In addition to hospitals, some outsourcing companies also provide services for nursing homes.

In the announcement of the transaction results of a hospital mortuary contracting service project released in 2017, a supplier participating in the bidding introduced in the recommendation reason that the company provides funeral services not only to many hospitals, but also to many nursing homes.

　　Reporter Beiwan Investigation Team