Pandemic  leads  to Santo Tomas Hospital enlarged morgue

The  morgue at The   Santo Tomás Hospital filled to capacity by the COVID- 19 Pandemic and a new  refrigerated warehouse is being built to store 40 corpses, at a cost of $283,000.  

According to information from the institution published in Panama Compra, a product of the Covid-19 pandemic, the morgue of the medical center reached its capacity.

The company that will sell the equipment is Hospitalar SA, whose president is Silkar Linett Pérez Arrocha, according to the Public Registry. A quote from the company Meditech International was also attached, which proposed a price of $185 thousand, but a hospital report states that it “does not comply.”

According to the entity, the Pathology Service of the Santo Tomás Hospital has nine modular refrigerators for corpses, that are 16 years old and are “discontinued.” “Initially the system had a capacity for 27 bodies, but now only nine are working,” reads a note from the medical center.

José Vicente Pachar, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, said that this purchase made by Santo Tomás indirectly benefits them, although the issue of morgues is being handled separately.