Oyo issues seven-day ultimatum on unclaimed corpses, plans mass burial.
The Oyo State Government has issued a seven-day public notice to relatives and next of kin of unidentified and unclaimed corpses deposited in public hospital mortuaries across the state to come forward for identification and collection before the bodies are given a mass burial. The directive was announced on Monday in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Health, Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi. According to the commissioner, the decision became necessary following a significant increase in the number of unclaimed bodies […]
