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  • Health The Community of Madrid prepares a second morgue in the City of Justice of Valdebebas

The second improvised morgue by the Community of Madrid is ready to receive the first corpses in the coming days after the circular building, known as the donut , located in what was to be the City of Justice of Valdebebas, has been conditioned. After several days working against the clock, 230 cold rooms have been put into operation spread over three floors. For the past few days, Community electricians and technicians have been speeding up the niches, many of them unfinished and under construction, and removing rust (and replacing new machinery) from the refrigeration equipment that was installed on top of the building to inject cold

The enclosure is hollow in its central part and on the walls are the refrigerated niches that have been finished and removed from oxides while the refrigeration machinery and the electrical systems necessary to condition them were replaced. Each of the chambers is 0.90 meters wide by 0.70 high.

Members of the UME in the facilities of Valdebebas. COMMUNITY OF MADRID

The Community of Madrid has made this Monday available to the health authorities the new provisional morgue that joins the one that came into operation this week at the Ice Palace. " This is an exceptional and temporary measure to facilitate the work of the funeral services, mitigate the pain of the victims' families and the situation that is being registered in the region's hospitals," according to sources from the Ministry of Justice. .

As until now, the transfer of the deceased to these facilities will be carried out by the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the Fire Department of the Community of Madrid, which support the funeral services.

Last Tuesday the Ice Palace was enabled to house the corpses of people killed by the coronavirus, waiting for the funeral homes to take care of them. The Minister of Justice rejected that the new resource of Valdebebas be opened because this "collapsed" the Ice Palace, but is enabled so that they can go "both to one and the other."

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