Abuja hospital to dispose 39 unclaimed corpses
The management of Asokoro District Hospital has announced that it would dispose 39 unclaimed corpses which have been in its custody between 2019 and 2021 if their relatives failed to show up within seven days.
This is just as the patients in the wards around Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) are calling on the management of the institution to evacuate the corpses causing offensive odour in the institution’s premises.
In a public notice sent to Daily Trust, most corpses were deposited by the officers of Nigerian Police and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Among the corpses was that of a man identified as Offiong
David Offiong, aged 70 years which was deposited on March 3, 2019.
Others include: Usman Ibrahim, Theresa Dominic, Nwokocha Chijioke, Kokole Matthew, Elendu Leonard, Okeke Prosper, Ezeala Oliver Eberechukwu, Ibrahim Mary, Ebutu Grace, Emeka Onovombonu, Abdullahi Ibrahim, Adamu Musa, Unknown Nda Adamu, Adamu Micheal, Okeke Williams,
Suleiman and Mohammed Izuchukwu.
A patient at UATH, who simply identified herself as Josephine told Daily Trust that people can no longer wait at the car park close to the mortuary.
She said, “The odour here is becoming more offensive. It seems the corpses are no longer taken care of. The management should please as a matter of urgency do something to this before it boomerangs.”
He added that while the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has paid members of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), PenCom is still computing information of many beneficiaries of the scheme.
He however appealed for a positive relationship between public and private sector pension agencies in Nigeria and relevant international organisations.
When contacted to react on why the payments have not been made, the spokesman of the Commission, Peter Aghahowa, did not reply to a text message sent to him and did not pick his calls.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Directorate of Road Transport Services (DRTS) says plans are ongoing to take the census of dispatch riders operating within the territory to curb illicit drug peddlers.
FCT DRTS Director, Wadata Bodinga, in an interview with NAN on Monday, in Abuja, said that dispatch riders were to be registered under a recognised dispatch company.
“The administration is looking at ensuring that dispatch riders are registered under a company so that the companies can provide the details of their dispatch riders alongside the company’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) licence,” he said. (NAN)