Covid-19 in Guadeloupe: the Pointe-à-Pitre morgue saturated – Franceinfo

At the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital (Guadeloupe), death on a large scale do now part of the daily life of caregivers. The bodies pile up in the corridors of the morgue and the service overflows. The nursing staff therefore try to find solutions by creating spaces to accommodate the bodies. The Paris firefighters who came to the island as reinforcements, for example, installed two containers in the hospital parking lot, as well as two ephemeral morgues with 12 places each.

Overwhelmed funeral directors make the same observation. The waiting lists are constantly growing and we must therefore reorganize the funeral while taking into account the situation of the epidemic on the island. With the sudden increase in deaths, company personnel could run out of supplies in the days to come.