A coalition of Nzuko Arochukwu, New York/New Jersey and Connecticut, United States, has explained the reason for building a state-of-the-art mortuary as one of its projects in the homestead community.
Speaking with Aro News, the President, Engr. Emma Odinakachi, said the association was troubled with the ‘dehumanizing’ treatment accorded corpses in the community as a result of unavailability of a decent morgue.
He explained that his wife was moved to tears sometime around 2018 when she travelled home and discovered how corpses were littered on the ground in the only morgue in the community.
Engr. Odinakachi said members of the union rose up and decided to pull resources together to ensure that corpses are treated with decency.
“I had to travel to Nigeria and met with the Abia State Hospital Management Board Director, the then Commissioner for Health and we requested for a piece of land in the Arochukwu General Hospital which was approved late 2018 and that was when we commenced the project,” he said.
The project, ongoing according to Engr. Odinakachi, will enhance the sanitary condition of the community, create employment, give respect, decency and love to departed ones
He added that the project has the capacity of spurring other town unions from Arochukwu to bring development to the community and Abia State as a whole.
Aro News gathered that the project has a 200 corpse capacity and equipped with modern facilities as well as a big generator that will ensure constant power supply
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