corpses stockpiled in the open in Delta hospital

Mortuary attendants at the 44-year-old Bomadi General Hospital, Bomadi in Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, stack corpses on improvised wooden platforms after embalmment and bizarrely abandon them to the vagaries of the weather, day and night,Vanguard reports.


The eyesore, is due to lack of space to preserve the dead bodies in the hospital’s overflowing mortuary. Meanwhile, patients have expressed disgust at the dilapidated condition of the health-care facility plagued by rats and mosquitoes, which has heightened the fear of Lassa fever and Zika virus in the riverside community. When Niger Delta Voice visited the morgue,  reporters saw embalmed corpses covered with blankets deserted. 
Efforts to speak with some of the doctors were futile, as none of them agreed to comment on the situation. Workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were under pressure on daily basis because of the challenges faced by patients.