In Guayaquil, 7.600 people were buried in April 2020. In eight local cemeteries, 7.544 burials were reported, for various causes, including coronavirus.
A media outlet published a list with the names of several people who died at that time, including police officers, firefighters, traffic officers, among others. Most were cremated in Jardines de la Esperanza. In addition, there are 62 bodies and four urns with ashes that have not yet been identified and therefore claimed.
221 bodies were stored in containers, but after a year of arduous forensic work, 159 of them managed to be identified. The remaining and four more urns with ashes are still as NN in the containers located outside the Legal Medicine laboratory.
The containers contain the bodies of patients from the Guasmo, Teodoro Maldonado Carbo and Los Ceibos hospitals. All are in police custody and ordered with serial number.
Fabiola Robalino, head of the National Service of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, said that these bodies and ballot boxes remain unclaimed.
She commented that after exhausting the resources to identify them, DNA samples are necessary, since those collected from people who have approached do not match.
Under this mechanism, only 14 of the 221 corpses were identified, most were already in an advanced state of putrefaction.
In the case of the ashes, these correspond to those cases in which the relatives had received urns, but later identified their deceased in the morgue.
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