Not only do funeral and interment products make huge profits for mortuaries, some pay first-aid personnel if they deliver the dead body to those particular companies. So those disorders should be regulated as soon as possible, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:

One open secret about hospital mortuaries is that most of them are operated by private companies nowadays. As private companies they will try their best to make money from the bereaved families.

These companies may lose their basic humanity faced with the extravagant profits that can be made from funeral and interment products. Not only do they make money by continually raising the prices of their products and services, they also form illegal industrial chains, by bribing medical staff.

One important reason for this disorder is the multiple management situation, which means their business comes under the supervision of many different parties, including hospitals, hygiene departments, commercial administrative departments and civil affairs departments, but in fact, none of those parties really supervises the mortuaries in reality.

For one thing, hospitals have no regulations covering their mortuaries. For another, other departments seldom apply quality control and management control over the industry.

Therefore, the various departments should cooperate and coordinate with each other in managing the funeral business. The Beijing authorities have eight hospital mortuaries to trial applying unified limited price and service standards, good management can make the funeral service standardize and transparent.