KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The high death toll due to Covid-19 in Malaysia lately has caused the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (IPFN) to face a bitter situation when experiencing backlogs in the management of the bodies, as a result of the outbreak and non-Covid-19 death cases. In contrast to the management of bodies of non-Covid-19 patients, the Covid-19 deaths need to be managed with the utmost care by the frontliners, and expedited for burial or cremation. DBKL also provides non-Covid-19 cremation services, so we have to wait for our turn,” she told Bernama. "Compared with last year, we rarely receive cases (deaths) at home, (on the contrary) we receive cases at the hospital. So we can put the cause of death as ‘Covid pneumonia’ or ‘pneumonia due to Covid’,” she said.

Source: The Star June 09, 2021 00:11 UTC