The crisis has hit the region’s morgues Mexico the south which is affected by a lot of crime, with nameless corpses keep coming. Thousands of human bones also piled up because they couldn’t be identified.
As reported AFP extensionTuesday (11/29/2022), mortuary in Chilpancingo, state Guerrerofull of anonymous human remains, just as the rest of Mexico is struggling to process tens of thousands of anonymous remains.
“Bodies keep arriving and people keep disappearing,” said a forensic anthropologist in Mexico City, Nuvia Maestro (36).
Quite apprehensive the task of a forensic expert in the area, where they have to perform an autopsy in a dark, windowless and air-conditioned room. The lack of proper equipment made their job even more difficult.
While performing his duties, Maestro uses two electric stoves that he and his colleagues have purchased to boil portions of the ribs to remove tissue and to perform tests to determine the age of autopsied bodies.
“You work and work and you don’t finish it!” said the 36-year-old Maestro.
In the Chilpancingo morgue, the incense burned by officials failed to mask the smell of death, nor to drive away the flies.
The logs of bodies entering the morgue were still handwritten, and one employee at the local forensic service only shrugged when asked why the logs hadn’t been digitized to make it easier to find the families of missing victims.
A local coordinator of forensic services, Alfonso Ramirez, that DNA testing alone “could take months”.
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