The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) said it has concluded plans to conduct a mass burial for 270 unclaimed bodies if not claimed within the next six weeks.
The coordinator of mortuary Services of the hospital, Dr Ehizogie Adeyemi, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Benin yesterday, gave the breakdown of the bodies as 201 infants and 69 adults, noting that the hospital had in a statement given a six-week ultimatum to the owners of the bodies to claim them.
The coordinator of the mortuary services said the bodies of the 201 infants had been in the hospital since 2023 while that of the 69 adults were there between April 2021 and December 2022.
She said the contact addresses and phone numbers provided by the owners of the bodies to the hospital were no longer reachable or valid.
She added that at the expiration of the six-week ultimatum, the hospital would conduct a mass burial for the unclaimed bodies if the owners failed to claim them.
The statement earlier issued by the hospital’s management urged owners of such bodies to claim them within a six-week notice, starting from May 20.
