The lot belongs to the state company Servi Axess, belonging to the AXESS Marketing Company of the OSDE/GEA.
LIMA, Peru – A new batch of 15 fully electric hearses began to provide services this Saturday in Havana, reported in its Facebook page the Minister of Transportation in Cuba, Eduardo Rodríguez Ávila.
“Project on which we have been working rapidly over the last month,” said the owner, who also detailed that the vehicles will be used only in movements within the capital and the costs of the service will be assumed by the State budget, not paid by the population.
The lot belongs to the state company Servi Axess, belonging to the AXESS Marketing Company of the OSDE/GEA of the Ministry of Transportation (Mitrans).
“The new park reinforces the service coverage (…) received by our organization in the face of the current difficult situation,” adds Rodríguez Dávila.
To date, this task has been the responsibility of the Budgeted Obituary Services Unit of the Provincial Government of Havana, “under difficult conditions.”
Considering that it is of electric vehiclesAccording to the minister, the load will be fully supported by solar panels and their corresponding accumulation. Additionally, an emergency generator set was installed as the last backup step.
“The supplier ensures the maintenance and repairs that are necessary to maintain the good technical condition of these means, and we do not start with a quality service and then deficiencies and objective circumstances hinder their performance,” highlighted the senior official.
According to the publication, although this project has been initially implemented in Havana, it is part of an ongoing plan, which includes the rest of the provinces and the Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality, with the incorporation of new electrical and combustion equipment, already contracted.
Likewise, the minister asserted that the financing in foreign currency for these projects comes from the funds for the Sustainment and Development of Public Transportation, a mechanism implemented this year by the Cuban regime “from foreign currency income” from the transportation sector and “from taxes on the marketing of vehicles.”
Funeral services are one of the many collapsed on the Island in the midst of the existing crisis, lacking conditions, transportation and deficiencies in management. This was reflected last July by the journalist from Cubanet Jorge Ángel Pérez in his analysis “Even dying in Cuba is a luxury”:
“Some time ago I wrote, for this same site, a text in which he addressed the disaster of funeral services in Havana. Then I recounted the vicissitudes that distinguished the Cuban wakes. In those days, still close, the lack of coffins was common, those that national irreverence usually calls ‘dead boxes’. By then I noted the absence of sarcophagi, even the glass that allows us to take a last look at the dead relative or friend who would be delivered to their grave a while later.”
“That time I also commented on the scarcity of hearses and the thousands of ways they helped the relatives of the dead. And in this country, the trip to the last of all homes has already been made in a horse-drawn cart and also in the bed of a truck, even in a wheelbarrow or in that uncomfortable position that is ‘astride’.”
