Crisis in Haiti: Hundreds of Bodies Pile Up in Morgue. Joe Mozingo.
by Mozingo, Joe; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 68Family. Publisher: Miami Herald, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Burial | Dead -- Identification | Haiti -- Economic conditions | Haiti -- Social conditions | Poor -- Haiti | Undertakers and undertakingDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Near an old car axle on a dry hillside, the small bleached-white skull of a child rests under a thorny bush. Nearby a pelvis is still wrapped in the tattered elastic band of a boy's underwear. Bones are scattered for hundreds of yards--teeth, femurs, vertebrae, skulls--half covered, like the broken bottles and car parts, in the fine red dust of this eroded coastline. This is where the main morgue in Port-au-Prince, 20 miles away, brings the destitute and unclaimed, the thousands of people who die every year with no means for a private funeral." (MIAMI HERALD) This article reveals the gruesome conditions at Port-au-Prince's main morgue which illustrate in stark terms "the failure of Haiti's government to attend to the most basic needs of the poor."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Crisis in Haiti: Hundreds of Bodies Pile Up in Morgue, March 21, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Near an old car axle on a dry hillside, the small bleached-white skull of a child rests under a thorny bush. Nearby a pelvis is still wrapped in the tattered elastic band of a boy's underwear. Bones are scattered for hundreds of yards--teeth, femurs, vertebrae, skulls--half covered, like the broken bottles and car parts, in the fine red dust of this eroded coastline. This is where the main morgue in Port-au-Prince, 20 miles away, brings the destitute and unclaimed, the thousands of people who die every year with no means for a private funeral." (MIAMI HERALD) This article reveals the gruesome conditions at Port-au-Prince's main morgue which illustrate in stark terms "the failure of Haiti's government to attend to the most basic needs of the poor."
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