A two-week ultimatum has been issued by the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Keffi, Nasarawa State, for nine unclaimed corpses left in its mortuary or subject to mass burial.
This is contained in a statement signed by Miss Esther Bature, Public Relations Officer of the medical centre, on Friday.
The statement read in part, “The decision by the management of the medical centre to issue the deadline is due to the fact that some of the corpses were brought in 2021 and others in 2022, thereby exceeding the time limit of 6 months permitted by law.”
Bature also urged members of the public who lost their loved ones during the stated period to visit the hospital’s morgue for possible identification and claim while reiterating that upon expiration of the two-week deadline starting from Friday, September 22, 2023, the medical centre would be left with no option but to give the nine corpses a mass burial.