Family members ignored 22 corpse at Abuja hospital.

About 22 human corpses have been forsook at the Garki Hospital, Abuja by relatives of the deceased. The hospital’s Group Medical Director, Dr. Elijah Miner disclosed in Abuja
Thursday during a visit of a delegation from the National Human Rights Comssion (NHRC), led by the Executive Secretary, Prof Bem Angwe. He verbalized some of the deceased were victims of bomb blasts, who were brought in headless, and could not be identified. Two of the corpses, Miner verbally expressed, are infants, while some of them have been in the hospital’s morgue for about 5 years.

He verbally expressed the hospital was orchestrating to bury the corpses, having secured a court warrant to dispose of the bodies. On his component, Angwe urged Nigerians to desist from forsaking the remains of their cognations in hospital morgues across the country. In a verbal expression, NHRC’s Chief Press Officer, Fatimah Agwai Mohammad, quoted Angwe as arguing that it was incumbent on family members of the deceased to pay their last veneration to their deceased relatives by giving them decent burials. Angwe commended the management of the hospital for not repudiating indigent patients due to lack of mazuma, verbalizing “this singular act has transmuted the perception of people about the hospital”. He urged the Federal Regime and well meaning Nigerians to make conscious efforts to upgrade the quality of health care distribution system and make it a priority. Angwe regretted that Nigerians have been subjected to buying drugs from unauthorized sources resulting in needless deaths due to inadequacies that subsist in our health care system.

 He assured the hospital management that his agency would work out modalities to ascertain that patients, who were treated on compassionate grounds, but failed to consummate their financial obligations, were made to do so. Angwe who urged the regime to insert place accessible and quality healthcare system to address issues of avoidable deaths, assured Nigerians that the NHRC would issue an advisory to the Federal Regime in this regard so that even the indigent members of the society would not have hiccups in relishing quality healthcare. The hospital’s Medical Director, Dr. Essen Nyomudime verbally expressed the institution’s management was tenacious to transform the hospital from average healthcare facility to “a centre of excellence albeit the hospital does not relish any subvention from the government”.
Nyomudime verbally expressed the goal of the hospital was to preserve lives hence it could not afford to turn back patients who could not afford to pay their medical bills, integrating that “in the past few years, the hospital has given out over 27 million Naira as discount on medical services”. He disclosed that so far, “the hospital has carried out 43 open heart surgeries, 12 kidney transplants, and has additionally done some IVF at very subsidized rates”.