Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Jun 20: The work on the new mortuary in state-owned Goa Medical College and Hospital with the capacity to store 200 corpses will be over at the end of September 2011, Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane said Monday June 20.

He said that over 70 per cent of the work on this state-of-the–art mortuary has been completed. “It will be close to the existing facility, situated behind the GMC complex at Bambolim village,” Rane said.

The total cost of new project is estimated to be Rs 18 crores.

Rane said that the new mortuary would have a capacity of storing around 200 dead bodies, along with major facilities such as three morgue sub units with 135 freezer vaults, compartments, autopsy room,
body examination centre for 150 students, mortuary record room, mass casualty for emergencies, x-ray room, photography, digital processing room and others.

The project consultant, Milind Ramani, said that there will be three sub units of mortuary cabinets which would have a capacity of storing 36 bodies each.