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Assessment of Funeral Workers’ Practices in Karachi Against International Safety Precautions
Research Synopsis
By: Ambreen Alwani
Institute of Business Management
MBA in Health Management
Supervised by:
Dr. Naveed Yousuf
Introduction
1. Background
A mortuary is a place where human dead bodies are retained for preservation and safety till the burial. Cremation is completed from a mortuary or a funeral house. These mortuaries and funeral houses are present in hospitals, private clinics, any volunteer charity homes or such service provider facilities (Afele, 2014). In these facilities, human corpses are preserved by funeral workers who manage cold-storage via deep-freeze facilities so that bodies can be retained for some time before funeral takes place. Funeral worker performs a sacred task and are prepared to accept its consequences in return. Funeral homes workers are in the uncommon and vague position of being honored for the work that they do even as feeling rejected by the society to whom they provide such services. (Garden, 2001)
With so much patience and compassion with their work, mortuary and funeral workers deals with dead human bodies that comes with many hazardous conditions including infections such as Hepatitis B, HIV and other viral and/or bacterial infections (Morgan, 2004). These workers are more prone to infectious diseases when proper safety precautions are not taken into consideration. These precautions should be a part of regular practices or code of conduct for these workers to avoid such health issues. Therefore, it is very important for every funeral house to design and implement standards operating procedures (SOPs) for their workers for not only providing quality services to their customers ...
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...ch practices of funeral workers will be assessed against pre-defined guidelines for funeral workers from different international sources such as Hong Kong National guidelines for dead body handling, WHO guideline chapter on mortuary practices and Code of conduct for funeral workers UK. (See Appendix 2)
(i) Data Analysis Procedure:
The current practices of funeral workers will be assessed against the international guidelines, and reported accordingly.
(j) Ethical Aspects
For ethical issue, informed consent form will be taken from all participants. Their information will be kept confidential and anonymous. The consent form will also include description of the study, its purpose, and permission to withdraw from the study at any point of time, information about the researcher, and their signatures on that form. The survey will be on voluntary participation.
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