Patients brave cold night outside hospital to avoid sleeping next to uncollected dead bodies
Patients in Uganda hospital deserted wards and others braved cold nights outside hospital over uncollected dead bodies as hospital management claim that mortuary is full reports Daily Monitor.
At least two foul smelling dead bodies were still lying on the hospital bed when Daily Monitor visited Moroto Regional Referral Hospital in the town of Moroto, in Northeastern Uganda.
According to a patient admitted in one of the wards with dead people, Patrick Okello, the dead bodies had been left for four days.
The hospital director, Mr. Filbert Nyeko, said that there was no place to put the dead bodies with the mortuary full of unclaimed dead bodies. Mr. Nyeko added that the Moroto municipal council that is responsible for collecting and burial of unclaimed bodies has not responded to the several letters that the hospital had written to them.
“We don’t have a place to keep the dead bodies because the hospital mortuary is full of unclaimed dead bodies,” said Mr. Filbert Nyeko, The Hospital Director to the Daily Monitor
Due to the congestion in the mortuary, the hospital had stopped carrying out post-mortem on accident victims since there was limited space for a doctor to stand and perform the autopsy.
The newly sworn in Mayor of the Moroto municipality said that the municipality was working towards collecting and burying the bodies.
