Philadelphia officials condemned the unauthorized transfer of several bodies taken from Einstein Medical Center in North Philly to the city's morgue in the back of a Ford pickup truck recently, according to an article on the Philly Voice website.
The incident involved the movement of five or six cadavers to the Medical Examiner's Office in University City, a distance of about 11 miles.
The pickup truck reportedly was observed unloading the bodies outside the Joseph W. Spellman Medical Examiner Building on University Avenue at around 3:30 p.m. It is not known whether the deceased individuals were victims of the coronavirus pandemic. Philadelphia has surpasses 10,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus
Three refrigerated trucks have been stationed at the medical examiner building to accept bodies from hospitals and funeral homes overwhelmed by the COVID-19 death toll. The trucks are not reserved solely for COVID-19 victims. The bodies seen on the pickup truck, though covered, were stacked on top of one another and reportedly transported this way in the middle of the afternoon. Once the truck arrived, the bodies were removed from the the flatbed area one by one on a gurney.
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