The management of the Plateau State Specialist Hospital, Jos, has raised the alarm over ” the indiscriminate dumping of corpses in the hospital’s morgue by security operatives.

”There are always unclaimed corpses dumped here. In fact, there are currently six unclaimed corpses in the mortuary,” the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mrs Talatu Angi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Jos.

”Sometimes these corpses are brought by your officers and other security agencies do drop the corpses in front of the mortuary with no information or details,” the management of the hospital wrote in a petition, addressed to the commissioner of police in Plateau.

”We solicit your assistance to enable us evacuate the corpses as some of them have decomposed beyond recognition,” the management further said in the petition, a copy of which was seen by NAN correspondent.

Angi explained that the hospital’s authorities had to petition the police commissioner on the corpses because they were always brought by policemen.

”Sometimes, the security personnel will just drop the corpses by the pavement of the morgue and leave unannounced.

The management of the Plateau State Specialist Hospital, Jos, has raised the alarm over ” the indiscriminate dumping of corpses in the hospital’s morgue by security operatives.

”There are always unclaimed corpses dumped here. In fact, there are currently six unclaimed corpses in the mortuary,” the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mrs Talatu Angi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Jos.

”Sometimes these corpses are brought by your officers and other security agencies do drop the corpses in front of the mortuary with no information or details,” the management of the hospital wrote in a petition, addressed to the commissioner of police in Plateau.

”We solicit your assistance to enable us evacuate the corpses as some of them have decomposed beyond recognition,” the management further said in the petition, a copy of which was seen by NAN correspondent.

Angi explained that the hospital’s authorities had to petition the police commissioner on the corpses because they were always brought by policemen.

”Sometimes, the security personnel will just drop the corpses by the pavement of the morgue and leave unannounced.

”Some of these corpses have been here for more than one year and they constitute serious problems to us, particularly as it relates to space.

”We had to bury six unclaimed corpses late last year to create space for the incoming ones; some of them were victims of the series of bomb blasts in the state,” she said.

The spokeswoman said that the hospital’s management spent a lot of money last year, to bury the unclaimed corpses.

She said that the management had wanted to get a burial space from the authorities of Jos North Local Government but later decided to bury the corpses in the hospital’s premises.

Angi advised the public to check the hospital’s morgue for their missing relations among the six unclaimed corpses currently in the hospital.

Speaking on the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Plateau State Police Command, Mrs Felicia Anslem, said that the command was not aware of the petition.

”But in any case, the police have no option than to dump any corpse they picked at a hospital.

”Why must the hospital management even complain about the corpses? If a corpse stays in a hospital beyond the stipulated time, they know what to do with it.

”You know that there is no way we can ignore a corpse when we are invited by the public. When we carry it, we have to drop same in the hospital.

”Even the security agencies are not finding it easy because most of these corpses are without any means of identification. Some do not have basic ID cards and other contacts.”

Anslem advised members of the public to always move around with identification cards ”so as to make things easy for security operatives and hospitals in case of developments like this.” (NAN)

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