Families abandon corpses at KWASUTH as Mgt plans mass burial

The management of the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH’s) mortuary has announced its plan to bury in mass unclaimed corpses.

The Guardian gathered that the development has become an embarrassment for the management.

A member of the management who hinted this, said the facility has been overstretched beyond limit.

According to an investigation, most corpse owners after the initial deposit never returned for either renewal of the agreed sum or retrieval.

A staff (names withheld,) said the management is now worried and disturbed over the situation, saying: “Our people have abandoned their families here (corpses) for us without looking back.)”

Consequently, KWASUTH management has threatened mass burial of the corpses and issued a two-week timeline for owners of corpses to come for their deposits, failure of which would end in mass burial.

Confirming the worrisome developments, the Head, Corporate Affairs Unit, Yakub Kamaldeen Aliagan said the hospital’s mortuary is “filled
beyond capacity with no available space due to unclaimed bodies.”

According to Aliagan, the management implores the public to come and retrieve the bodies of their relatives within the next two weeks.

He stated that the two weeks starts from the time of the announcement, after which the management will consider decongestion through mass burial.