The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Cross River State, has scheduled a mass burial of unclaimed corpses for 21 October, giving households and people who deposited the our bodies a last alternative to determine and retrieve them.
The hospital mentioned the train turned vital as a result of some corpses had remained in its mortuary for a number of years, occupying house wanted for its operations.
David Ushie, chairman of the Special Task Force on the Evacuation of Abandoned and Unclaimed Corpses, mentioned the hospital issued a public discover enabling relations and different individuals to determine and declare the stays earlier than the deadline.
“The hospital has given relatives and individuals who deposited the corpses three weeks to identify and claim them. Any bodies remaining unclaimed after the 21 October, 2026, deadline will be evacuated for mass burial without further notice,” Mr Ushie mentioned.
Mr Ushie, who heads UCTH’s division of pathology, mentioned the discover was supposed to make sure households had sufficient time to finish the identification and retrieval course of.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Ikpeme Ikpeme, introduced the deadline throughout the activity power’s inauguration in Calabar on 29 September.
Represented by Stephen Ogbudu, deputy chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee in cost of Clinical Services, Mr Ikpeme mentioned the directive coated corpses that had remained within the mortuary past the statutory 90-day interval from the date they have been deposited.
He disclosed that some our bodies had been within the facility for greater than a decade.
Mr Ikpeme attributed the buildup of unclaimed corpses partly to the excessive price of burial ceremonies and cultural practices that place appreciable monetary calls for on bereaved households.
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The hospital mentioned the deliberate evacuation was supposed to decongest the mortuary, enhance sanitation and supply a extra conducive setting for medical companies.
It known as on members of the general public who suspect that the stays of lacking or deceased relations could also be on the hospital to contact the related authorities and full the required procedures earlier than 21 October.
The activity power includes officers from the hospital’s Legal, Surveillance, SERVICOM, Corporate Affairs and Sanitation departments. Ewa Alexander of the Legal Department serves as its secretary.
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