The representatives of Mararaba medical centre in Karu local government area of Nasarawa state beg government to organise a burial for dozens unidentified dead bodies that have been slowly decomposing for years in its mortuary.
Doctors and patients are under threat of epidemic outbreak because of rotting dead bodies in the morgue of the hospital.
The head of the medical centre Ibrahim Adamu told the press that the situation with dozens dead bodies in the centre’s morgue has become critical. The corpses remain unburied for years because police officers, who have dumped them in the hospital’s mortuary, failed to identify the bodies for years – most of them victims of armed robbery or accidents.
And those slowly decomposing corpses, many of whom lie in the hospital’s morgue over three years, now pose a threat for health of both the hospital’s personnel and the patients. There’s a risk of disease outbreak in the hospital which is the only such facility in Karu local government and is being attended by at least 200 patients every day.
“We are appealing to Karu local government authorities and the police to arrange for their burial,” Ibrahim Adamu told, adding that “evacuation of these corpses will promote not only the health of our workers, but also health of our patients, especially those on admissions.”
Ten months ago dead bodies have been festering for many days along busy Iyana Iba Road, Ojo Local Government Area, Lagos State, just outside the entrance to the Lagos state University.
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