Some families have been burying just body parts of the victims because of the fatality of the plane crash that made some victims lose several parts of their bodies in the accident. That explains why most of the victims’ corpses are not laid in state before burial because what is inside the coffin is just dismembered body, a human leg, head, hand or other parts of the body.
However, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. David Wale Oke, said that it is far better than mass burial and it is what is practised in advanced countries when such fatal accidents happen.
He told Saturday Sun exclusively that the handling of the victims
of Dana plane crash would be compiled into a report and presented in an
international forum to show Nigeria’s advancement in managing such crises like
plane crash.
He also said that in a meeting between Lagos State Government and
the victims’ families, it was agreed that the victims be buried separately as
against mass burial, which is outdated in modern societies.
He recalled a mass burial of victims of a plane crash done at
Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos State, where some relations of the crash victims
could not visit easily because of distance.
He commended Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola for taking the bold
step to carry out the forensic analyses of the victims to ensure that each
family buries its dead and that each victim has a personal grave side.
Prof. Oke noted that the antecedent set by Lagos State in handling
the Dana plane crash victims will serve as a pathfinder in case of future
occurrences in the country.
“This is because the experts that handled the Dana Plane crash victims
are here in LASUTH, are Nigerians and with the experience they have gathered,
can handle similar accidents if called upon.”
The LASUTH CMD further explained that the delay in collection of
the bodies of the Dana plane crash is partly because some families have the
next-of-kin of the victims outside the country.
Source; Sun
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