UBTH To Conduct Mass Burial For 270 Unclaimed Corpses
A mass burial for 270 corpses will soon be carried out by the authorities of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, if the owners fail to claim them within the next six weeks.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Benin City, the coordinator of mortuary services at the hospital, Dr. Ehizogie Egbeobauwaye Adeyemi, gave the breakdown of the corpses as 201 infants and 69 adults.
Dr. Adeyemi added that the contact addresses and phone numbers provided by the owners of the corpses to the hospital were no longer reachable or valid.
According to her, at the expiration of the six-week ultimatum, the hospital would conduct a mass burial for the unclaimed corpses if the owners failed to claim them.
The statement reads in part: “This is to inform the general public that the management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, has concluded plans to dispose of all unclaimed corpses that have been in the hospital mortuary for a very long time.
“For the avoidance of doubt, such corpses include those of infants that have been in the mortuary since January 2023 and corpses of adults that have been in the mortuary from April 2021 to December 2022.
“Consequently, owners of such corpses are hereby given six weeks’ notice from the date of this publication to claim their corpse (s).”
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