Temporary Mortuary Set Up in Wiltshire Council Gritting Yard
A council gritting yard is being used as a temporary mortuary because the hospital site has reached its capacity.
A refrigeration unit has been set up at Wiltshire Council’s High Post salt store, by the A345, near Salisbury.
Salisbury District Hospital said it had opened the additional mortuary to “accommodate an increase in need.”
It was first used on 4 January and will remain open for as long as extra capacity is needed, with round-the-clock security on site, it added.
“The last time we used temporary storage facilities such as this was in February 2021 during the pandemic and the storage facility was at Salisbury District Hospital,” the council said.
Figures published earlier in the week showed that more than 650,000 deaths were registered in the UK in 2022 – 9% more than in 2019.
It represents one of the largest excess death levels outside the pandemic in 50 years.
Source: BBC
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