…. urge Diri to lift ban on burial

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenegoa

An official at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has raised an alarm over the high number of corpses deposited in the morgue, saying the hospital facility can no longer admit new corpses.

To this end, the hospital has called on state governor, Senator Douye Diri to relax the executive order restraining burials to check the spread of the coronavirus in the state and allow the dead to be buried by their families.

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The Consultant Pathologist at the medical facility, Dr Alawode Kehinde, who made this known yesterday during an interactive session with newsmen in Yenagoa expressed foreseeable hiccup if nothing is done to evacuate the corpses from the morgue between now and June.

“The situation may become very difficult to manage and also for those burying because after then, the rains will be heavier which is usually not too okay for burials,” he said.

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The Consultant Pathologist said in view of the anticipated difficulty, a letter had in the past week been sent to the Governor of the state, Douye Diri to grant those with corpses in the morgue to evacuate them for burial and that hopefully if the request is granted, such burials will be done under strict compliance to social distancing.

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