Port Moresby hospital director says one in five bodies are not collected by loved ones, creating a capacity headacheA major hospital in Papua New Guinea has warned there will be a mass burial of 154 bodies held in its overflowing morgue unless family members collect the bodies in the next two weeks. The mass burial will take place in two weeks at the public cemetery at Nine-Mile, a settlement in Port Moresby. “What we want to do is have people come to claim the bodies, if people don’t claim them we won’t have enough space in the morgue,” he said. We don’t want bodies in the morgue for a long time.”The hospital’s morgue is built to accommodate 150 bodies – the hospital has been required to store the additional bodies in airconditioned containers. If the body is still unclaimed after one month, the hospital applies to the court, which has to give permission for a mass burial.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2019 05:15 UTC