Lusaka City Council (LCC) has buried 40 unclaimed bodies from the University Teaching Hospital Mortuary.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today, LCC Acting Public Relations Manager George Sichimba said the recently buried bodies are those that had been unclaimed from November 2017 to February 2018.
Mr. Sichimba added that, the unclaimed bodies resulted caused unpleasant mortuary stench which is contrary to the Public Health Act Cap 295 of the laws of Zambia.
He explained that according to the laws of Zambia, 14 days of notice was given for the members of the general public to claim the bodies before they could be taken for burial at Chingwere Cemetery by the Health Department Officers from the council.
Mr. Sichimba mentioned that the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) wrote to the council stating that there were 41 unclaimed bodies that needed to be buried hence, the council giving a public notice for the general public to claim the bodies.
He disclosed that only one body was claimed by the relatives.
Mr. Sichimba appealed to the general public to visit health facilities in search of missing relatives so as to reduce on the number of unclaimed bodies.
How do you bury that many bodies with scarce land taking into account how expensive it ….why not cremate its cheaper!!
So sad to hear such. MTSRIP. God grant them peace and decent place in your kingdom. No person should be buried in this manner.
This is why chief and tribe is needed on NRC. Next time just make 4 trip to their villages on council vehicle:
Towards chipata
Towards Mwinilunga
Towards Mumbwa
Towards Livingston
Bembas not included here… Why.. answer is clear.
@Jay Jay that’s why you never helped your relatives, because £200 to bury your father in law is expensive?
Do you know how many bags of charcoal to burn your father in law? Multiply by 40.
You should have sent money @Jay Jay.
Not Cool.
Nostradamus – When are you going to wake up and grow up from your silliness!!!
The hardest cases to deal with are of people who don’t carry their identification cards on them. When they get involved in say a fatal accident, it’s hard to figure out who they are. That’s why developed countries at least require or expect everyone to carry an ID. It makes it easy to Identify someone and then publicize it in the media, to try and locate the relatives. Zambia should pass a law that requires everyone to carry an ID in their wallets or purses. Unless you want to be buried in an unmarked grave, with no mourners or flowers, carry your ID everywhere you go.
Bad reporting, at least you can give out the gender numbers if there were children not just give total number. Zambian government is run by lazy people. I bet they didn’t even made an e effort to ID those bodies or an effort to reach out to the general public about missing people in Zambia. RIP
Has there been anything the government ever done which your insane programmed mind ever thought of as good?
Is his lazy bum dead?
This is in fact an economic indicator if relatives can abandon their sick and dead. It says something about the economic circumstances of the relatives and perhaps the general population.
That’s too many deaths; are they cholera related deaths or not? yes we need chief and village on the NRC to trace the dead;
I think Zambia is ruled by fo00! Who got no vision or direction where this country is going to. I feel sorry for those die hard PF followers without vision. Zambia is done.
Those saying we can use chief and tribe on NRC to trace the relatives, are you assuming everyone carries an NRC everywhere? Or maybe you will ask the relatives to bring it?
Don’t be bums please!
Ba Disimo!!!!!!!!!! when admiting patients that info/data is captured. Mind you those where not BID cases. Sad baane. What a way to go.
@yaks.You have a clear point there.
Its also important to consider the finger prints.Almost every gvt office use finger printing but for what.Those prints carry details of anyone.
Pls let’s wake up.