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The Mayor’s Office of La Paz inaugurated this Sunday a mega pavilion in the General Cemetery that has 588 niches and 1,071 sarcophagi. The work is named after “Doctor René Fernando Sahonero”, who died in May 2021, shortly after assuming the Municipal Secretary of Comprehensive Health and Sports of the Mayor’s Office of La Paz.
“We have done this in homage to our great friend René Sahonero, it is a mega-pavilion that we began to build just when he left us last year; he left and we decided to put his man on it. Now the Cemetery has this mega-pavilion that was built with an investment of 2.8 million Bolivians,” said Mayor Iván Arias, after attending mass for Palm Sunday in the churchyard church.
The infrastructure is located in sector 12 Ensanche, on the left side of the cemetery, on the border with Entre Ríos Avenue and near the Holland educational unit. It has three floors and was built on 856 square meters.
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He recalled that thanks to the lines of action established by René Sahonero, the municipality of La Paz is a leader in vaccination in the country. “We are the most vaccinated city, the most protected city; once we buried it, we came to see that this mega-pavilion was being built and we decided that it will bear the name of René Sahonero and I am very happy”, he explained.
Arias also highlighted the quality of person of the deceased. “René had people skills, the ability to be humble and very professional; he had clear ideas, he had the gift of listening and doing things with love and firmness, that is the gift of people he loved, “he said.
The mayor reported that the mega pavilion is part of the modernization of the cemetery with the purpose of making the necropolis more attractive to attract tourists.
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Juan Sahonero, brother of the deceased doctor, was present at the inauguration, and he recalled a phrase he used to say: “To be a good doctor, you have to be a good person.”
The general director of the Municipal Decentralized Entity of Cemeteries of La Paz, Patricia Endara, reported that the mega-pavilion has three floors, a central staircase, embossed corridors, circulation spaces with a metal grid and a water fountain.
This Sunday a “body reduction room” was also inaugurated, which was built with an investment of 35 thousand Bolivians.
