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Coronavirus is so severe in Bolivia that corpses are burned in a cell crematorium on a trailer.
Cemeteries and funeral homes are suffering to keep up with the increase in cases in Latin America, leading Bolivian engineers to find a disturbing solution.
The five- to two-meter device runs on liquefied petroleum gas, meaning families who have to pay their funeral expenses have a less expensive option.
Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer and one of the designers of the “crematorium furnace”, said he is about to help the country in its hour of need.
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Crematoriums are expensive and are found in the main cities of Bolivia.
He said three cans of fuel would incinerate a frame in about 30 minutes, and that he could earn 20 a day, adding that several town halls had already issued orders.
“We searched this pandemic,” he told the Guardian. “We wondered, wouldn’t it be better if it were mobile, moving it from one position to another?”
Mr Ayo’s service costs only 30 euros, at about 764 euros for a normal cremation in a crematorium.
There are reports in Bolivia that families remain coffins with corpses in their homes for days and the publicity director of the mayor of La Paz, Martín Fabri, said that the largest cemetery in the village had noticed 2000 burials and cremations last month.
Bolivia has 95,071 samples of Covid-19, with 3,827 deaths.
This occurs when Peru has surpassed part of one million cases of coronavirus and has the number of deaths in Latin America, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health on Thursday.
There were 507,996 and 25,648 similar deaths, deputy health minister Luis Suarez said at a press conference.
The Andean country has a coronavirus mortality rate in Latin America at 78.6 consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, according to a Reuters count, surpassing its most affected regional neighbors, Chile and Brazil.