More than five months after Hurricane Dorian swept through The Bahamas causing damage estimated at US$3.4 billion, Dr. Duane Sands, Health Minister in the Bahamas, says the time has come for the country to acknowledge that more than 200 people lost their lives as a result of the Category 5 storm.
At the end of November last year, the official death toll was put at 70, with 282 people missing.
Dr. Sands told The Tribune newspaper that the authorities will have to make a decision to confirm and declare that more than 200 people died as a result of the storm that lashed the archipelago on September 1.
The storm caused widespread damage mainly in Abaco and Grand Bahama, with officials indicating that the death toll in those two areas were 60 and 10 respectively.