The Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State, has threatened to conduct mass burial for hundreds of unclaimed corpses in its mortuary.
The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Jacinta Achonu, who disclosed this in a statement in Owerri, the state capital, on Wednesday, stated that all the corpses that were not claimed by their families and relatives in a fortnight’s time would be given mass burial.
“This is to inform the general public that the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, intends to conduct mass burial of abandoned corpses in its mortuary.
“In view of this, those whose relatives are missing should visit the hospital’s mortuary for possible identification and collection of such corpse(s) within two weeks from this publication,” the statement read.