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The Community of Madrid is planning to open the third provisional morgue in the region on the Majadahonda ice rink, known as La Nevera , to attend to the high mortality suffered by the province as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. On March 23, the temporary measure was taken to enable the Hortaleza Ice Palace to store corpses and since last Monday the facilities of the Institute of Legal Medicine have also been used for the same purpose in the circular building, known as Donut , from the City of Justice of Valdebebas after conditioning the block and putting 230 refrigeration niches into operation.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice of the Community of Madrid has confirmed to EL MUNDO that this possibility is being studied to use this refrigerated facility in an extraordinary way, which has been closed since March 13 when the cessation of its activity was decreed to according to the preventive measures of Public Health adopted as a consequence of the covid-19.

As happened in the Hortaleza sports complex, the bodies in La Nevera will be located on " a technical surface made of synthetic material about 2-3 centimeters thick ", which will be installed on the ice rink, to avoid the body's contact with the body. same. For the entrance and exit of the coffins, a rear access to the complex will be enabled. The La Nevera ice rink is located in the El Carralero de Majadahonda industrial estate, very close to the Puerta de Hierro de Majadahonda Hospital and the M-50.

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