The University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH has disclosed plans to dispose off all unclaimed Corpses through mass burial of any other means considered appropriate.
The Management in a public notice issued and published in Newspapers on Monday 20th May 2024, however gave six weeks ultimatum to owners of such Corpse(s) to remove their Corpses from the hospital mortuary.
It also explained that the Corpses, include both infants that have being in the morgue since January 2023 and adults that have being there from April 2021 and December 2022.
The notice partly reads, “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 being in the Hospital’s mortuary, which has being a home to over 4000 Corpses “for a very long time”.
“Any unclaimed Corpse(s) at the expiration of six weeks period shall be despised off through mass burial or any other manner considered appropriate”, according to the notice.
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