Uncollected dead stored in shed with no air conditioning despite tropical heat will have to be buried in mass grave
Footage of nearly a dozen bodies left to decay outside one of Papua New Guinea’s major hospitals has highlighted the pressures on the country’s health system and prompted calls for urgent reform.
“Some of these bodies here, right now, have been left out here for four or five days now, it’s now Christmas and New Year’s period, they didn’t just arrive, some of them have decayed,” he says.As the man films, another body is carried in by family members. It said there would be a mass burial next week and there were 20 bodies waiting to go into the morgue.Dr Kone Sobi, Port Moresby general hospital’s director for medical services, said some bodies had not been collected because relatives could not afford either of the private funeral homes in the city. He said a mass burial was planned for Thursday.
“Discussions are being held as we speak, we are looking at options, some designs have been presented, so the announcements will be made in due course.”
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