Puerto Rico's Government Just Admitted 911 People Died After The Hurricane Of "Natural Causes"

[riversedge]

The article goes on to say only the official count of 51 will be counted to Marie deaths.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhiprakash/puerto-rico-natural-causes?bftw&utm_term=.dkEmgJ5QV2#.ue1KwjXMP3





Puerto Rico's Government Just Admitted 911 People Died After The Hurricane — Of "Natural Causes"

The 911 bodies were never physically examined by a medical examiner to determine if they should be included in the official death toll.


Updated on October 27, 2017, at 9:30 p.m.


The Puerto Rican government told BuzzFeed News Friday that it allowed 911 bodies to be cremated since Hurricane Maria made landfall, and that not one of them were physically examined by a government medical examiner to determine if it should be included in the official death toll.

Every one of the 911 died of "natural causes" not related to the devastating storm, said Karixia Ortiz Serrano, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety who is also speaking for the Institute of Forensic Sciences — which is in charge of confirming hurricane deaths. The "natural causes" designations were made by reviewing records, not actually examining the bodies, she said.

The government's revelation comes after BuzzFeed News reported earlier Friday that directors of funeral homes and crematoriums in two municipalities were permitted by the government to burn the bodies of many people the directors thought died as a result of the hurricane — without a government pathologist examining the corpses first to determine if they should be counted in the official death toll.

The current death toll stands at 51. Twenty of those official deaths were cremations.

The death toll has become a critically important indicator of how relief efforts are going — because President Trump made it one. It is also important for families of victims to claim federal relief aid.

“These reports are extremely troubling — they provide even more reason to be concerned about the accuracy of the information we’re receiving," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, told BuzzFeed News. "The Trump Administration needs to cooperate with Puerto Rican authorities and provide all the necessary resources to ensure the death toll is accurately counted.”......................................

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[mythology]

1. That's really stupid

And not just because I assumed the official death toll was so low because I thought they would want to be accurate and wait until they had the chance/resources to do proper autopsies.

That is really piss poor government.

[democratisphere]

2. Starvation and dehydration are normal causes?

How many people were swept out to sea without a trace. Hope the actual truth is eventually known.

[Not Ruth]

3. Try 4000

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9755034

[oasis]

4. The PR government is afraid to piss off The Great Pumpkin. Gotta act

like he's done a fabulous job, or he'll put the screws to the rescue efforts.