MOSCOW, Dec 30 delays in autopsies due to a lack of pathologists are forced to wait more than a month to bury their relatives, Sky News reports.
There were more than 540,000 deaths in Britain in 2022, up 8% from the average five years before the pandemic. Due to rising deaths, British pathologists are struggling to keep up with the high demand for autopsies: in some parts of Britain, relatives of the deceased have to wait up to two weeks for a decision on whether to perform an autopsy, so it often takes more than a month before the funeral.
«We had to start using make-up to make the dead look presentable because there is a visible change due to the delay,» the Liverpool Funeral Director and former president of the National Association of Funeral Directors was quoted as saying by the TV channel. services of David Barrington.
Delays in post-mortem examinations are also linked to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the channel: at the moment, British pathologists are more focused on cancer diagnosis of patients who were not diagnosed in time due to the pandemic.