The Sudanese Ministry of Health has announced the start of rehabilitation and maintenance works on some morgues in the state of Khartoum As a result of the accumulation of thousands of dead bodies since the end of 2019.
And he said, in a press statement on Thursday evening, that the Forensic Authority and Advisory Council had begun “the rehabilitation and maintenance of morgues in Ambada, Bashaer and Omdurman in Khartoum state, after the morgues had reached a state of deterioration, due to the accumulation of corpses in large numbers until the smells stank and the rats devoured them, which portends an environmental and health catastrophe”.
Provision of refrigerators for the storage of corpses
He further added that the rehabilitation and rehabilitation operations did not include the transfer, dissection or burial of corpses.
He also explained that the rehabilitation of the morgues included providing a set of refrigerators for the storage of corpses, preparing the dissecting rooms, arranging for the placement of the corpses and placing them in dead bags, as well as designing them to store them without decomposing or be eaten by rodents.
newborn corpses
Rehabilitation included sorting and wrapping the bodies of newborns, as well as setting up shops, cleaning exterior corridors, maintaining air conditioners, overhauling lighting, and opening sewers.
Interestingly, the Ministry of Health had recommended in October 2022 to close all morgues Khartoum regarding the accumulation of corpses.
In context, local media indicate that Khartoum’s morgues are no longer capable of holding the more than 3,000 bodies that have accumulated since the end of 2019.
