Nigeria: Plateau Hospital Management Raises Alarm Over Unclaimed Corpses

The management of the Plateau State Specialist Hospital, Jos, has raised the alarm over " the indiscriminate dumping of corpses in the hospital's morgue by security operatives.

"There are always unclaimed corpses dumped here. In fact, there are currently six unclaimed corpses in the mortuary," the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mrs Talatu Angi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Jos.

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