Ondo Conducts Mass Burial For 496 Unclaimed Corpses

Ondo has conducted a mass burial for 496 unclaimed corpses.

Glamtush reports that the Ondo State Government on Tuesday said it had disposed of some unclaimed corpses at the mortuaries of the University of Medical Science Teaching Hospital in Ondo and Akure.

The Special Adviser to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Health, Dr Francis Faduyile, disclosed the development in a statement issued by the Press Officer of the state Ministry of Health, Bisi Lawani.

This online platform gathered that the government said about 496 corpses at the mortuaries were affected and they had been given mass burial.

Faduyile explained that the government took the action after he and some other government officials recently embarked on an assessment tour of the morgues in the two health facilities and observed with dismay their gory state, saying the facilities were jam-packed with unclaimed bodies for over a year.

The special adviser further stated that after the tour, he informed the governor, through a memo, on the need to decongest and rehabilitate the morgues, which he said had literally turned to an eye-sore.

He noted that the approved memo and due process were followed in carrying out the exercise.