Teaching
Hospital Gives Ultimatum For Unclaimed Corpses.
Management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital,
Osogbo, Osun State, has declared the mortuary of the hospital congested with
unclaimed bodies.
It subsequently gave 14 days for relatives who have
corpses in the mortuary unit of the hospital between January 2019 and June 2023
to come and retrieve them.
The hospital noted that it would resort to mass burial of
all unclaimed bodies after 14 days of the announcement as an alternative to
decongest the mortuary.
Similarly, in September 2023, the Federal Medical Centre
in Keffi, Nasarawa State, gave a two-week ultimatum for the retrieval of nine
corpses that were unclaimed in its mortuary for an extended period.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Public
Relations Officer of the medical centre, Miss Esther Bature, and made available
to newsmen in the Keffi Local Government Area of the state.
Usually, corpses of some accident victims remain
unclaimed on hospitals because sometimes, their relatives may not be aware of
their whereabouts.
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