On April 18, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from the Municipal Health and Health Commission that in order to effectively solve the outstanding problems in the hospital mortuary service, which were strongly reflected by the masses, further standardize and strengthen the management of hospital mortuary and funeral services, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people. With the support of the department, the Municipal Health Commission made deployment arrangements in the city to strengthen the management of hospital mortuaries.
as follows:
First, strict mortuary service management.
In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other 16 departments, the "Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Reform of Funeral and Interment and Promoting the Development of the Funeral Industry" and the "Notice of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs on Further Doing a Good Job in the Charges and Management of Funeral Services" and other documents, further strengthen the management of mortuaries. It is forbidden to carry out any for-profit funeral services in the mortuary area of the hospital, and relevant work shall be carried out in accordance with laws and regulations.
For the family members of the deceased who have relevant funeral service needs, they should provide services in a safe and sound manner by cooperating with various funeral homes in this city.
The second is to implement the responsibility of hospital supervision.
For the funeral service institutions currently working in cooperation, each hospital fully performs the hospital's supervision responsibilities in the cooperation agreement and in daily work, strictly examines the qualifications of the funeral service institutions, and confirms whether the cooperation institutions are approved by the civil affairs department and have the "Funeral Service". Funeral Service License", and immediately order the unqualified funeral service organization to stop the service.
Regularly supervise the situation of funeral service agencies engaging in funeral services beyond the scope, violating the funeral service charging policy, and failing to publicize various service information in a prominent position.
Strengthen safety protection, guide funeral service agencies to do a good job of sanitation and epidemic prevention, and put an end to violations of epidemic prevention and control, safety production management regulations and other illegal activities.
For hospitals that cooperate with funeral service agencies in violation of laws and regulations, they shall assume corresponding management responsibilities once verified.
The third is to properly guarantee the mortuary service.
While investigating and standardizing the services of mortuary cooperative funeral service companies, each hospital actively and steadily connects funeral services with funeral homes and provides compliant funeral services.
In the relevant areas of the mortuary, publicize the addresses, contact information, and complaint reporting numbers of funeral homes in the city, and take the initiative to inform the families of the deceased.
Strictly implement the mortuary management system, operation supervision mechanism and service process, do a good job in the management of body transport vehicles and medical waste, and do a good job in mortuary service guarantee.
In the next step, the Municipal Health and Health Commission will further strengthen the supervision and inspection of the hospital's mortuary management, and will work with relevant departments to study policies and measures to continuously improve the mortuary management. If the hospital is found to have irregularities, the health and health department will seriously deal with it according to its responsibilities, and resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the masses.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Jiang Ruojing