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Homeless persecuted by the Mayor Fernando Haddad São Paulo has recorded five deaths of homeless people from the cold since the beginning of June: two in Santana, North zone, one in Paulista Avenue, in the central region, one in Bom Retiro, in the center, and another in Belém, East zone. The official cause of death can only be confirmed after the results of the autopsy, made by IML (Medical Legal Institute), which had not yet ruled on the specific cases. But both those who live on the sidewalks as the Pastoral Care of São Paulo's Street People (an NGO) accuse the GCM (Metropolitan Civil Guard) and other staffs from the City Hall to remove their blankets, mattresses and even pieces of cardboard they use to against the cold, by order of a policy "hygienist" of the mayor Fernando Haddad, according to  Exame  magazine. The janitorial operations, known popularly as "rapa", are known to whom suffers from low temperatures. In Square 14 Bis, in the Bela V...

Medical Legal Institute in Luziâia: bodies in open caskets generating diseases Decaying bodies are exposed in the courtyard of the unity of the Legal Medical Institute (LMI) in Luziânia, a town near the country capital. Second the director of instituito, there isn't an appropriate room to put them. Local residents complain about the stench that the situation causes. The unity of the LMI in Luziânia serves nine counties. According to servers, the bodies arriving in decomposition cannot be stored in the refrigerator along with other corpses, because should being in a separate room. However, according to the staffs, there's no structure to the bodies in a state of decomposition are stored and also there isn't an area for autopsy. Therefore, they are placed within open caskets or in trucks, which are in the courtyard. The population complains that it is difficult to eat because of the stench.