LEADING insurance provider, Fidelity Life Assurance Company Limited (Fidelity) has set up a state-of-the- art funeral parlour in the city as the institution moves to boost its capacity in funeral services.
DIVINE DUBE Own Correspondent
The new structure comes at a time when most funeral service providers in the city struggle to provide descent mortuary services to the deceased with some still using ancient cold rooms for storage.
Fidelity, which has in the past been using parlours owned by other funeral service providers, could be the first to set up modern mortuary equipment in the city.
The parlour boasts a 12-decker refrigeration system with each apartment backed by a compressor.
The mortuary has the capacity to store 12 corpses at lowest possible temperatures.
The parlour also provides all types of coffins including top-of-the-range executive class caskets.
The institution’s financial and operations manager Muvengwa Marumahoko said the parlour located in Bulawayo’s Thorngroove suburb will be officially opened later this month.
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“We are just finalising setting up our equipment and we will be ready to open it by month end.
“We have the latest refrigerators imported from South Africa and this makes us the first funeral parlour to install such equipment in the region,” he added.
The development could see the life insurance company outmanoeuvring other funeral service providers.
It envisages operating similar parlours in all the country’s provinces.
