Hospital administrators said they were planning a mass burial of his eight unclaimed bodies.

Our correspondent, Head of Clinical Services, Dr. Joseph Jezichira, Administrator of the Hospital, received a court order, police excerpt, and cemetery permit to bury the body.

“In every institution, there are policies. Once a corpse stays in a morgue for more than eighteen months and no person has come to claim the body, you tag them as unclaimed bodies. In the process of trying to dispose of the corpses, you get a court order and we did that, we got the court authorisation, police extract, you even go to the cemetery to get clearance so that you can dispose the bodies. We did newspaper publications as well. We’ve done all the processes, you don’t have to bridge the process.

We have eight corpses, they are all adults. They’re blocking the space, they’re in the morgue for two years and nobody to come and claim the bodies. We have made adverts, radio announcements and nobody is coming to claim them, we can’t leave it like that.”

He lamented that the morgue was congested.

“There is no space unless you pile them like sardines. Every hospital has different sizes of their morgue

“We plan mass burial for them though we have not fixed the time for that yet. We may not have medical students demanding it.

“It costs a lot to maintain and power the morgue. If some universities apply, and the bodies are still okay, we will give to them, that is where they get cadavers to learn,” Eziechila said

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In a video published on his social media pages on Thursday, Piqué said that he would play his last game in the team’s shirt this week.

See his full statement below as translated by MARCA:

“Culers, it’s Gerard,” he started off saying in the video.

“The last few weeks and months, many people have been talking about me.

“Until now, I haven’t said anything, but now I want to be the one talking about me.

“Like many of you, I’ve always been a Barcelona fan and I was born into a footballing family.

“From a very young age, I didn’t want to become a footballer. I wanted to become a Barcelona footballer.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about that kid lately, about what the little Gerard would have thought if he had been told that all of his dreams would come true.

“That he would make it to the Barcelona first team and win every trophy possible.

“That he would become a European and world champion and play with the best in the world.

“That he would be one of the team’s captains and make friends for life.

“It’s been 25 years since I joined Barcelona. I left and then came back.

“Football has given me everything. Barcelona have given me everything.

“You, culers, have given me everything.

“And now that all that kid’s dreams have come true, I want to tell you that I’ve decided that now is the time to bring this journey to its end.

“I’ve always said that there would be no other team after Barcelona and that’s how it will be.”

“This Saturday’s game will be my last at the Camp Nou.

“I will become another fan and support the team and pass my love for Barcelona onto my kids, like parents did for me.”