Chief Medical Director of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Dr. Edmond Banwat has alerted the public over the presence of 39 unidentified bodies at the hospital’s mortuary.
Banwat said some of the bodies have been deposited at the morgue located at the hospital’s temporary site on Murtala Muhammed Way, Jos, since January 2018.
According to information provided by the JUTH Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Bridget Omini, the hospital waited for more than one year and six months for families of the deceased to come and identify as well as claim them to no avail.
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“The hospital has given the general public two-month notice to claim the bodies after which the hospital will devise a means of medical evacuation,” she said.
The Nation learnt that the mortuary is congested and the management needs to create more space.
It was also revealed that some of the bodies might be victims of accident brought to the hospital by police or road safety personnel from accident scenes.
Some are also alleged to be bodies of armed robbers, kidnappers and other criminal elements, who fell to the fire power of security agencies during operations as well as those picked from the streets by police without knowing the cause of death.(The Nation)
