33 Corpses Abandoned For 18 Years In Our Mortuary Risk, Mass Burial
33 Corpses Abandoned For 18 Years In Our Mortuary Risk, Mass Burial
Godfrey Okoye University (GOUNI), Enugu, has given families of 33 corpses abandoned in its hospital mortuary 21 days to evacuate them or the corpses would be given mass burial.
Some of the corpses had been in the mortuary for more than 18 years.
On this account they had plans on how to renovate the mortuary.
Anieke said the renovation and upgrading would make the mortuary to become a fitting one for a teaching hospital.
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Christian Anieke, told a news conference in Enugu on Sunday that the ultimatum, given on Nov. 13 became necessary to enable the university to renovate the mortuary.
We have gotten court injunction to carry out mass burial of the 33 abandoned corpses in our teaching hospital morgue.
“Some of the corpses have been in the mortuary for more than 18 years and it is quite challenging as we want to renovate and make the hospital a befitting one for a teaching hospital,’’ he said.
While confirming ignorance of what could be responsible for the long stay of the corpses, he opined that some probably had no relations or they were criminals.
“I am appealing to those who have corpses in the mortuary to come and remove them.
“We are talking about human beings here and not animals. Go and check if your relation is there,’’ he admonished.
Anieke added that in Igbo tradition, families have to give befitting burial to the deceased.
“`It is believed that if the dead is not given befitting burial it will have bad consequences on the family,’’ he said.
the Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Prof. Cajetan Nwadinigwe, said many of the corpses did not have name tags, while about 14 of them bore the same name.
He said there were no records of dates in which some of the corpses were deposited at the mortuary, while it was evident that some had been there for more than 10 years.
“This is our basis of approaching the court and advertising the warning in newspapers for families to see,’’ Nwadinigwe said.
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