The management of the National Hospital, Abuja has said it is yet to release six corpses of those who died during immigration recruitment stampede because it wants verify the identity of the victims’ relations.
The hospital’s spokesman, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday.
NAN recalls that seven bodies were deposited at the National Hospital mortuary on March 15 after the unfortunate event at the National Stadium in Abuja.
Haastrup said: “Out of the seven bodies brought to the hospital, only one has been properly identified and released to the relatives.
“It is not that people have not come to claim the corpses but we need to ensure that we release the bodies to the right persons after proper identification.”
The Minister of the Interior, Abba Moro, who visited the hospital on Sunday, had told the hospital authority that the police must authenticate any claim by relatives of the deceased before the bodies are released to them.
Haastrup, who also corroborated this, said that two women were still on admission out of the 11 people admitted at the hospital.
He said they would be discharged as soon as they were certified fit.
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