The management of National Hospital, Abuja, revealed on Thursday that it has about 22 human corpses which have been abandoned by their relatives.
The hospital’s Group Medical Director, Dr. Elijah Miner made this known during a visit of a delegation from the National Human Rights Commission led by the Executive Secretary, Professor Bem Angwe, to his office.
Miner noted that some of the deceased were victims of bomb blasts.
He also disclosed that two of the 22 corpses were infants and that some the bodies had been in the hospital’s morgue for over five years.
He said some of the bodies were brought to the hospital without head and could not be identified.
He revealed that the hospital was planning to bury the corpses having obtained a court warrant to dispose the bodies.
On his part, Angwe called on Nigerians to desist from abandoning the remains of their relations in hospital morgues across the country.
He commended the management of the hospital for not rejecting indigent patients due to lack of funds, saying “this singular act has changed the perception of people about the hospital”.
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