27 Tombs Of COVID-19 Case Patients In Bengkulu Moved During 2023

The funeral situation for positive COVID-19 bodies at the moment of the pandemic is still volatile at the Rorotan TPU, Cilincing, North Jakarta on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Between-Muhammad Adimaja)

BENGKULU - The Social Service (Dinsos) has transferred the graves of COVID-19 victims in Bengkulu City to the Merah Putih public cemetery (TPU) Bentiling Village during 2023.

Head of the Social Service Office of Bengkulu City, Sahat Marulitua Situmorang, explained that this was done because his party was committed to continuing to facilitate the people in the area to move the graves. "We will facilitate when there are residents who want to move their families' graves who were previously victims of COVID-19 by submitting to the Social Service Office of Bengkulu City," he said in Bengkulu City, Wednesday, December 27, which was confiscated by Antara.

The transfer of the tomb is carried out if there are family parties who apply for the transfer of the tomb to the Social Service of Bengkulu City. "Actually, the relocation of the tomb is not the duty of the Social Service as long as there is no submission, but it will be our duty when someone has submitted it, because the Social Service is the duty for humanity," he said. Currently, he said, at the Bengkulu City Government's grave, precisely in the Red and White City area used for the burial of COVID-19 victims, there are 227 graves.

Menurut dia, pemindahan makam tersebut telah dilakukan sejak Pemkot Bengkulu membangun kawasan Kota Merah Putih di Kecamatan Selebar pada 2022."Dulu ketika COVID-19 ada beberapa TPU yang secara SOP dikhususkan untuk pemakaman korban COVID-19. Kota Merah Putih merupakan salah satu pemakaman umum di Kelurahan Betungan yang dikhususkan untuk pemakaman korban COVID-19 sehingga sebagian korban dimakamkan di daerah tersebut," kata Wakil Wali Kota Bengkulu periode 2018-2023 Dedy Wahyudi.Saat pandemi COVID-19 sejak 2020 hingga 2022 wilayah tersebut dijadikan makam untuk korban yang terinfeksi virus corona, karena sejumlah TPU menolak korban COVID-19 dimakamkan di tempat tersebut.Kemudian, dalam perjalanan pengembangan kota ke arah Betungan, Pemerintah Kota Bengkulu telah memindahkan puluhan makam korban COVID-19 ke TPU Merah Putih.Dalam proses tersebut, pihaknya melakukan pemindahan makam melalui prosesi yang sesuai dengan agama masing-masing korban.