The Port Kaituma mortuary, which staff had discovered to be dysfunctional on 23rd September, 2023 is now operational and functional, Region One Chairman Brentnol Ashley has said.
In a telephone interview with this newspaper, Ashley explained that the mortuary’s dysfunction was discovered when staff, who were going to prepare a body for a funeral, realized that another two bodies were in a state of decomposition. According to him, three bodies were affected.
He disclosed that the other two bodies that were discovered in a state of decomposition had been lodged at the morgue by the police in excess of a month. The circumstances surrounding those deaths, he said, were a police matter and the bodies were awaiting post-mortem examinations.