Hospital to go ahead with mass burial for unclaimed bodies

THE Port Moresby General Hospital will go ahead with the mass burial of unclaimed bodies probably this week, says chief executive officer Dr Paki Molumi.
Dr Molumi said the burial announced some weeks ago had to be postponed after they received requests from relatives to give them time to come and take away the bodies of their loved ones.
“For the mass burial, we got people requesting us to hold the bodies for a while. But (it) will proceed,” he said. Dr Molumi said there was another list of dead people to be published in the newspapers.
“We are just delaying because of the requests. We are giving time to the relatives to come and claim the bodies,” he said.
Dr Molumi said after they had published the names of the unclaimed bodies, many came to claim the bodies.
“Many have come and they are still continuing. So that has created some space for us. But the new list of unclaimed bodies will go up on Monday. We have to do the burial at the end of next week,” he said.
The hospital has brought in another refrigerated container to accommodate another 35 or more bodies.