The city of Jacksonville broke ground Monday on a new multi-million-dollar medical examiner’s office.
The current medical examiner’s office, which was built nearly 60 years ago in 1968, has struggled with space -- a situation the News4JAX I-TEAM has been covering for years.from former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Valerie Rao.
She stated there was a dire lack of space, and one body had to be put on the floor. This lack of space happened as drug overdoses spiked across the area.A few years later in 2020, COVID-19 made the issue even worse.Now the city plans to spend over $62 million to build a new medical examiner’s office.
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