Oyo Issues 7-Day Ultimatum For Unclaimed Corpses, Plans Mass Burial

The Oyo State Government has issued a seven-day ultimatum to relatives and next of kin of unclaimed corpses deposited in public hospital mortuaries across the state, directing them to come forward for identification and collection or risk a mass burial exercise.
The directive was contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, who noted that there has been a significant rise in the number of unclaimed bodies across mortuaries in public health facilities in the state.
According to her, the corpses were deposited by security agencies including the Nigeria Police Force, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Nigerian Correctional Service, an...