CHI sets deadline for families to claim bodies.
The Chief Health Inspector has made a distressing appeal to the public regarding the unclaimed bodies of six deceased men that have been in storage at a funeral home for as long as three years.
The bodies are yet to be claimed by their respective families, and the Inspector is urging relatives to come forward and make arrangements for a private funeral at Barnes Funeral Home.
In a recent notice, the Inspector revealed that if the bodies remain unclaimed after 14 days, the government will take necessary steps to have them buried without further notice.
This is a heartbreaking situation, and the names of the unclaimed men are yet to be disclosed.
They are:
Nathaniel Andrew, who died in December, 2021
Renol Delva who died in September, 2021
Edward Sylvester, who died in December, 2021
Dequan Cummings, who passed away in January 2022
Anderson Quinland, who passed in September, 2022
Limo Lee, who died in October, 2022
According to the Office of the Chief Health Inspector, there will be no legal recourse once the state buries the dead men.
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