Juba Teaching Hospital mortuary is without electricity and eight bodies totally decomposed are being piled in a container wrapped in plastic sheeting awaiting burial.
John Wani Samuel, who heads the mortuary services, told CRN that a number of corpses were brought from Gudele, Konyokonyo and Munuki and kept for long because no relatives showed up to claim them.He said there is one body since December to be claimed and there are eight completely decomposed awaiting burial.
Mr Wani urged the government not to cut electricity supplies to the hospital.
He said the mortuary has a generator but it lacks fuel.
Mr Wani explained that the mortuary workers are fed up with the situation due to the horrible stink.
He said out of 12 fridges only six are functional, but the power supply was not constant.
Mortuary Senior Overseer Cathrine Poni Daniel said the workers are not given incentives and sometimes they have to buy soap at their own expenses.
She said they lack gloves, waterproof boots and corpse bags.
Ms Poni said the morgue buys normal nylon sheets from Konyokonyo to wrap the bodies in.
She urged the government to listen to their problems and supply fuel to mortuary’s generator.
She said sometimes relatives beat them when they find the bodies of their love ones decomposed or buried.
Ms Poni challenged government official to come and see the situation with their own eyes.