By Editor
The management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has given six weeks ultimatum to owners of unclaimed corpses lying fallow and abandoned in its mortuary facility to come and move them out or face a mass burial.
The warning was contained in the hospital’s circular.
The management also said that the corpses, include both infants that have been in the mortuary since January 2023 and adults that have been there from April 2021 and December 2022.
“This is to inform the general public that the Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH has concluded plans to dispose off all unclaimed Corpses that have been in the Hospital’s mortuary, which has been a home to several unclaimed Corpses “for a very long time”.
“Any unclaimed Corpse(s) at the expiration of six weeks period shall be disposed off through mass burial or any other manner considered appropriate”,the notice partly reads.