By Sola Ogundipe

LAGOS — HEADS have begun to roll at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, in the wake of the unclaimed baby corpses scandal currently rocking the tertiary health institution as five staff of the hospital have been suspended indefinitely.

The suspended staff who work in the Morbid Anatomy and Finance departments, were implicated in allegations of fraud and complicity with a private undertaker hired to dispose 66 corpses abandoned in the health institution’s morgue.

Although no official statement has been issued, a reliable source at the institution told Vanguard that more heads might likely roll because the hospital management was not handling the incident with kid gloves.

Already, a full scale in-house investigation has been instituted with a resolve to ensuring that everyone found wanting is identifed and appropriately sanctioned.

Further investigations revealed that the suspended staff were issued letters to that effect after explaining in writing ,to their departmental heads, all they knew about the incident.

According to the source which pleaded anonumity, the hospital staff had all been found culpable following the arrest of the undertaker, Shuaibu Atanda, who fingered them after his botched attempt to dispose the corpses in controversial circumstances.