UBTH warns on unclaimed corpses

BENIN CITY – The management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, has warned that it would dispose off, in a manner it deems fit, unclaimed corpses in its hospital’s mortuary.

It noted that some of the unclaimed corpses which included still birth, babies and some adults had been in the mortuary for a long time.

A statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Kehinde Ibitoye advised owners of these bodies to come forward and collect them as their continued stay in the mortuary were not in the best interest of the hospital.