The Bahamas death toll from Hurricane Dorian is likely to soar, the health minister warns. “The public need to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and the human suffering," Dr. Duane Sands said.
“It’s going to be huge," Bahamas health minister Dr. Duane Sands said of the death toll after Hurricane Dorian.
“We have four morticians in Abaco embalming because we have run out of coolers. (to store dead bodies)”
“Literally hundreds, up to thousands of people are still missing," said Joy Jibrilu, director general of the Bahamas' Ministry of Tourism.
Adrian Farrington, a 38-year-old Abaco father, watched a powerful storm surge swallow his young son.
While sitting on a gurney in a room at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) in Nassau yesterday, Farrington, a resident of Murphy Town, told The Nassau Guardian, “My leg was numb, but I was still trying to stay afloat with my son. After about an hour of treading water and bleeding, I noticed…some fins swimming along the houses.
“So, I grabbed my son and I put him on top the roof. The water was high on the roof.”
Farrington said his son, Adrian Farrington Jr., 5, kept crying.
“I keep telling him, ‘Don’t cry. Close your month. Don’t cry. Keep breathing. Don’t cry. Close your mouth,’” he said.
