THE Lagos State government is to keep bodies of most DANA plane crash victims for some weeks, as their families are yet to redeem them.
Contrary to expectation, almost all of the now identifiable 107 bodies have not been retrieved as the processes for collection enter day three today.
While a handful of family members of the victims showed up for the Batch B collection exercise yesterday at the Lekan Ogunsola Memorial Home, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Lagos, many of the families were not ready to take custody of the bodies.
As at press time yesterday, the management of the private morgue could not confirm how many bodies have been released.
LASUTH Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof. Adewale Oke confirmed that some families have not been coming to collect the bodies, but the state government has decided to keep the victims for a while.
“Some people are not coming to retrieve their bodies. Yesterday we decided to accept that some bodies would be here for one or two weeks, particularly those from abroad. To say how long the bodies will be there, I cannot. But nobody is charging extra to keep the bodies here,” Oke said.
At a press briefing to apologise to journalists over assault on some of them on Thursday by officials of the morgue, Oke said only the private morgue would give information on release of bodies.
He said: “The information is not for LASUTH to give. Inside LASUTH, we have some mini institutions running on Public Private Participatory drive and the TOS mortuary is one of them.
The mortuary is not LASUTH’s mortuary, but an affiliate of the Ministry of Health.
“They have their own workers who are not under LASUTH. Our primary responsibility is just to oversee and act as a bridge between the facility and the ministry.”
Culled:247nigerianewsupdate
Contrary to expectation, almost all of the now identifiable 107 bodies have not been retrieved as the processes for collection enter day three today.
While a handful of family members of the victims showed up for the Batch B collection exercise yesterday at the Lekan Ogunsola Memorial Home, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Lagos, many of the families were not ready to take custody of the bodies.As at press time yesterday, the management of the private morgue could not confirm how many bodies have been released.
LASUTH Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof. Adewale Oke confirmed that some families have not been coming to collect the bodies, but the state government has decided to keep the victims for a while.
“Some people are not coming to retrieve their bodies. Yesterday we decided to accept that some bodies would be here for one or two weeks, particularly those from abroad. To say how long the bodies will be there, I cannot. But nobody is charging extra to keep the bodies here,” Oke said.
At a press briefing to apologise to journalists over assault on some of them on Thursday by officials of the morgue, Oke said only the private morgue would give information on release of bodies.
He said: “The information is not for LASUTH to give. Inside LASUTH, we have some mini institutions running on Public Private Participatory drive and the TOS mortuary is one of them.
The mortuary is not LASUTH’s mortuary, but an affiliate of the Ministry of Health.
“They have their own workers who are not under LASUTH. Our primary responsibility is just to oversee and act as a bridge between the facility and the ministry.”
Culled:247nigerianewsupdate
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