Mass Burial: UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital Issues 14-Day Ultimatum For Unclaimed Corpses

The administration of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, located in Osogbo, Osun State, has issued a statement indicating that the hospital's mortuary is overwhelmed with unclaimed bodies due to overcrowding.

As a result, it granted a 14-day window for families with bodies in the hospital’s mortuary between January 2019 and June 2023 to claim them.

A statement issued by the hospital’s management on Saturday said that if bodies remain unclaimed after 14 days, they would opt for mass burial to relieve congestion in the mortuary.

It reads: “The management of UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, wishes to inform the general public that the hospital’s mortuary is presently congested and crowded with unclaimed bodies.

“In view of this development, the management hereby calls on relatives who have corpses in the mortuary unit of the hospital between January 2019 and June 2023 to come and retrieve them within 14 days of this announcement.

“It should be noted that the management will resort to mass burial of all unclaimed bodies after 14 days of this announcement as an alternative to decongest the mortuary.”