UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital issues 14-day ultimatum for unclaimed corpses

The management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, has announced that the hospital’s mortuary is overcrowded with unclaimed bodies.

As a result, it granted a 14-day window for families with bodies in the hospital’s mortuary between January 2019 and June 2023 to claim them.

“In view of this development, the management hereby calls on relatives who have corpses in the mortuary unit of the hospital between January 2019 and June 2023 to come and retrieve them within 14 days of this announcement.

“It should be noted that the management will resort to mass burial of all unclaimed bodies after 14 days of this announcement as an alternative to decongest the mortuary.”