FEMA Pledges Help for Puerto Rico Morgue's Cadaver Backlog
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Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress said the federal government will commit money and personnel to resolve a backlog of corpses at the island’s morgue, which had gotten so bad that the commonwealth had to use refrigerated trailers in a parking lot.
Jenniffer Gonzalez, the island’s non-voting representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency pledged to allocate $2 million to resolve the matter. Gonzalez also said in an interview that she was promised military pathologists to aid in processing hundreds of cadavers.