The management of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology Teaching Hospital, ESUTH, says it will dispose over 300 unclaimed bodies from its mortuary before the end of March.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Chief Medical Director of ESUTH, Bethrand Ngwu, on Thursday in Enugu, stressing that anybody whose relations or friend`s corpse had stayed in the hospital for a period of six months and above should proceed to claiming them.
According to him, failure to claim the corpses within three weeks after the announcement, would lead to permanent disposal, stressing that the hospital will not be held accountable.
“This announcement serves as a notice to anybody whose relations or friend`s corpse has stayed in the hospital for a period of six months and above, to proceed and claim it,” he said.
“Failure to do so within three weeks after this announcement, all bodies not claimed shall be disposed off permanently, and the hospital will not be held accountable,” he said
