Taking the increase of the homeless population into account, the total death rate has tripled since that time.

The report also said that the biggest factors that heavily impacted the death rate to take its toll are drug and alcohol overdoses.

Figures show that from 2016 to 2018, the overdose death rate for the homeless people was as high as 26 times more than the general population in homes.

In a news release, the director of the county health department, Dr Barbara Ferrer said, “This alarming increase in homeless deaths requires immediate action to improve the care for our most vulnerable populations.”

Accounting for nearly 25% of the number of deaths in the six-year span, coronary heart disease was the top cause of death. And other leading causes of deaths also includes traffic injuries, homicide and also suicide.

The report also discovered that the general population lived 22 years more than the homeless people.

Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said in an interview, “Homelessness can have a devastating impact on a person’s health and well-being, and we need to better understand the underlying causes that contribute to our County’s high mortality rate among those who are experiencing homelessness.”

As a result of the increase in deaths of homeless people, the report recommended a few actions to do something about the saddening news, including creating a team to review homeless deaths to have a better understanding of the situation.

Experts that spoke to Fox News said that China is complicit in the abuse, and have said in cases where involuntary abortions aren’t ordered, North Korean officials engage in outright infanticide.

“Terrifying reports from female defectors depict undergoing forced abortions after they fled to what they thought was freedom in China, only to be repatriated back to North Korea by authorities in China,” said Olivia Enos, Senior Policy Analyst for Asian Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “Other women from North Korea recount having aborted babies born alive or giving birth in ordinary prison camps only to have border guards smother or drown their babies before their very eyes.”

Kim Dong-hyun, an analyst and journalist for Chosun News-Press and a former Air Force Officer for the Republic of Korea, added there has been no marked improvements with regards to North Korea’s human rights record in recent years when it comes to forced abortions.

“These [women] are treated like an animal and have been put through forced abortions and it is done in many ways,” he said. “This is inhumane and a serious problem.”

Indeed, the barbarity allegedly knows no bounds, as Kim explicitly detailed.

“Pregnant women can be made to lie on the ground. Then [guards] put a long and wide piece of wood on her stomach. They pick two people for the job. These two people could be the son of the woman, her husband or lover, or any relative. These men stand on top of the wooden board like a see-saw,” Kim said. “Using a burning iron is another method. The punisher carries a long piece of metal and lets it burn until red or yellow, then puts it into the pregnant woman. A woman can die from this punishment, and often, if she survives, she cannot walk properly.”