The administration of Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi has stated it’s giving a two weeks ultimatum to relations of 21 unclaimed corpses in its morgue to come back and declare them.
A press release signed by Miss Esther Bature, Head of Public Relations/Protocol and made obtainable to newsmen in Keffi native authorities space of Nasarawa state on Tuesday.
According to Bature, the choice by the administration of the centre to difficulty the deadline is as a result of a few of the copses have exceeded the six months permitted by regulation to stay within the morgue.
“They now constitute a potential health hazard for the hospital and its immediate environs.
“We therefore call on members of the public who have missing relatives to visit the hospital’s morgue for possible identification and collection of such corpses,” she stated.
She stated that on the expiration of the two-week deadline efficient from Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the medical centre could be left with no possibility however to evacuate and dispose the our bodies.