NCDC acting deputy city manager Honk Kiap said the decomposing bodies posed a health risk and the City Hall had planned for a mass burial next week.
He told reporters last Friday that they have held discussions with POMGH chief executive officer, Dr. Alphonse Tay, who had agreed with the mass burial proposal, but said relatives of the deceased must first give their approval.
“The names of the dead in the morgue and in the containers will be published in the newspapers for relatives to come and claim them,” Kiap said.
After a week, the remaining bodies will be buried en masse.
He said only a week was given because of the deteriorating state of the corpses and the health risks they posed if kept longer.
Kiap said for this year, City Hall and POMGH would need to meet and decide on how best to utilize this funding given the current bad state of the morgue facility.
The POMGH morgue continued to stink last Saturday, with a terrible stench spreading over about a kilometer radius, as corpses were removed from a one of the containers to another donated by hospital chairman, Sir Brian Bell.
