The Rivers government has constructed an 800-capacity ultra-modern mortuary at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the commissioning of the mortuary on Monday, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Tamunoiyoriari Parker, said the project was designed to ensure a spacious accommodation for the dead.<\/p>\n
Parker said that on assumption of office, Gov. Chibuike Amaechi inspected the BMSH and found its mortuary dilapidated and abandoned.<\/p>\n
“The governor quickly released funds for the completion of the project which is to be managed in partnership with a private firm, Ashes to Ashes Ltd.<\/p>\n
“If the PPP (Public, Private, Partnership) succeeds, this will be replicated in all our General Hospitals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Parker explained that the mortuary was built to international standard since “in Africa when we take care of the living, we also take care of the dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consultant pathologist and the Chairman of the Mortuary Monitoring Committee, Dr Charles Amakiri, thanked the government for providing the facility.<\/p>\n
Amakiri said that the old mortuary had a capacity for only 20 bodies.<\/p>\n
The BMSH Medical Director, Dr Olukunmi Ijeruh, said with the commissioning of the new mortuary, the old BMSH mortuary had been decommissioned.<\/p>\n
Ijeruh called on those who still had bodies in the old mortuary to urgently pay the required fees to be able to remove them.(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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