Hong Kong – FEHD reacts to media queries on cremation service

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FEHD reacts to media queries on cremation service

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In reaction to media queries on cremation service, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) offered the list below reaction today (November 10):

The FEHD is dedicated to offering the general public with effective and dignified cremation service. It has actually been the FEHD’s efficiency promise a cremation session within the next 15 days will be provided to the candidate from the day of application, and the FEHD has actually been totally satisfying those efficiency promise for many years. Presently, there is an overall of some 350 cremation sessions offered at various crematoria from tomorrow (November 11) to November 25. Applications can be sent online anytime or face to face throughout workplace hours. Essentially, all candidates will be designated a cremation session instantly, and there are no cases that the candidate can not get a cremation session within 15 days.

Service needs differ with dates and the crematoria. The need for cremation sessions on vacations and at city crematoria is normally greater. The FEHD has actually been carefully keeping an eye on the total supply of cremation sessions to guarantee accessibility of sessions within the 15-day duration worried.

The FEHD has actually been actively improving the quality of different burial services in the current years. The FEHD has actually introduced the Platform for Cemeteries and Crematoria Services (service platform) (app.fehd.gov.hk/ ccsp) with the electronic application procedure structured and customised services used. Members of the general public can send applications for all cemeteries and crematoria services handled by the FEHD by means of the service platform, consisting of cremation services, allowance of public specific niches, cemetery services, green burial, cremation or keeping services for abortus, complimentary memorial sails and the facility of the Internet Memorial Service Website (Advanced Planning Version).

Members of the general public can likewise develop an integrated service account on the service platform to handle after-death plans for numerous departed people, decreasing troublesome treatments. Users can handle several applications for the exact same departed in a single account and track the application development of each service at a glimpse. The service platform supports numerous electronic payment approaches, conserving time for the general public by removing the requirement to go to cemetery and crematorium workplaces face to face for applications and cost payments.