The University College Hospital, (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, has carried out a mass burial for many unclaimed corpses in its mortuary after running three adverts in the pages of newspapers at three different occasions with deadlines for the bodies to be claimed, when the mortuary became congested. But even after the adverts, no one still came forward to claim them.
According to the hospital spokesman, Deji Bobade, it is believed that most of the corpses were abandoned due to the culture that says that “parents should not bury their children.”
Most of the corpses buried where between the ages 1-50 and had been abandoned in the mortuary since 2012.
Mr Bobade however says the decision of the management to perform the mass burial was within the purview of the law.
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