The authorities of the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, have given owners of abandoned corpses in its morgue three weeks to claim them or risk a mass burial.
This, they said, was due to a large number of abandoned bodies in the hospital’s mortuary.
The Chief Medical Director, Dr. Kaunda Ibebuike, in a statement, urged those whose relatives are missing to check the morgue within the specified period.
He stressed that if the corpses are not claimed, the management plans to conduct a mass burial for them.
“The public are by the notice advised to go and remove their loved ones abandoned at the morgue.
“Others who are in search of missing relations should as well check the morgue before the end of the three weeks timeline slated for the mass burial,” the statement reads.
