SINGAPORE: Licensed funeral parlours with embalming facilities will have to ensure that they allow only experienced embalmers who have taken basic ...
, after a mix-up resulted in the wrong body getting cremated. This happened after an employee of funeral director Harmony Funeral Care mistook the man's body for the dead relative of another client when collecting it from Century Products' embalming room.Separately, reports in June last year said that a man had his mother’s body moved to another funeral parlour after Fook Sow Undertaker in Geylang Bahru allegedly left her body uncovered.
They must also have carried out embalming procedures on at least 25 bodies in Singapore, supervised by another registered embalmer.The new conditions also include two points that were previously covered in circulars to licensed funeral parlours on Jun 3 last year and Jan 10 this year about their regulatory responsibilities for maintaining a proper system for body identification and controlling access in and out of the licensed premises.
Additionally, they must also have a system in place to identify each body, from the time it is received to the time it is removed from the premises. The guidelines, which are available on the NEA and AFD websites, outline the approach from collection of the deceased at the place of death, management of the body within licensed premises, preparation of the body, and removal of the body from licensed premises.
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