In Guayaquil, the leader of the Task Force in charge of the corpse collection indicated that there are no reports of missing persons.
The drama about finding bodies in Guayaquil still continues, despite the fact that Jorge Wated, leader of the task force that coordinates the collection of bodies, affirms that there are no reports of missing persons.
The official said that there is a concern of the public, but assured that they are being buried little by little.
Darwin Castillo lost his father in the middle of the pandemic in Guayaquil, the focus of greatest contagion in the country. He went to retrieve the body at the Los Ceibos hospital morgue, but when he opened one of the bags, he realized that it was not his family’s. At that site, according to what he was informed, there were 170 bodies and, despite being given the opportunity to search, he had to give up because they were also fatally affected by COVID-19.
Castillo said that more than two weeks have passed and he still does not know where the body is. He even had to return the coffin to the funeral home. All he wants is to give a Christian burial to his father who was a dialysis patient who died on March 31 of a catheter blockage.
The hospital and funeral chaos caused by the pandemic, aggravated by the curfew imposed by the authorities to stop the spread, led to many bodies spending days in homes before being removed.
The task force group has removed 1,400 corpses from houses and hospitals in Guayaquil and through an electronic portal reports where they have been buried. Currently, two cemeteries have been expanded for this purpose.
Despite this application, Castillo still cannot find his father.
Like yours there are more cases. A group of those affected is organizing to file a lawsuit against the State.
Héctor Vanegas, a lawyer for these citizens and a Guayaquil councilor, questioned the fact that the bodies are lost or confused.
Vanegas is preparing a list of those affected and has already received 190 phone calls, although several of them have not been confirmed.
Moisés Valle, 37, an employee of a pharmaceutical company, also lost his father. He died of a heart attack at the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo hospital.
When he was working to claim the body, he learned that it had been sent to the container of another sanatorium without his authorization.
Dayana, 29, works at a funeral home. The woman assured that during the month of March there were many bodies without names and to which the identification labels had been changed in the morgues.
Despite this, Wated said that in these 15 days of April 6,703 deaths have been reported throughout the province of Guayas, when the usual average was 2,000 people. «In 15 days, we obviously have a difference of 5,700, beyond the figure that involves different causes: COVID-19, alleged COVID-19 and natural death,» he exclaimed.
He also said that despite these results, the numbers «are decreasing» daily.
He assured that more than 700 families already have their family member in a Christian burial and that it is expected to proceed with 700 more these days.
Source: Ecuavisa, Expreso, social networks
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