FMC Yenagoa Raises Alarm, Says Mortuary Can’t Admit New Corpses

Mortuary officials of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Yenagoa have raised an alarm that their morgue is full to capacity since the past week, and that they can no longer admit new corpses.

The management blamed the present situation on the Executive Order issued by Governor Duoye Diri suspending burials to check the spread of the Coronavirus in the state. 

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Dr Alawode Kehinde, who is the Consultant Pathologist at the FMC mortuary in Yenagoa, noted this on Tuesday at his office in while speaking on how the mortuary has fared since the order restraining burials in Bayelsa State. 

Kehinde says the situation posed a big challenge and that if nothing is done urgently to remove the corpses from the morgue between now and June, the situation may become almost impossible for them to manage. 

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He said further that, more challenging environmental issues may arise, posing serious challenges that would be detrimental to health for those burying because after then, the rains will be heavier which is usually not too great for burials.

He revealed that 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 permission to evacuate them for burial and that hopefully if the request is granted, such burials will be done under strict compliance to social distancing.