Funeral Homes Refuse to Accept Decomposed Body Found in Swetes

This highlights the importance of a national morgue!

However, why aren’t we utilizing the containers that we were using during the Covid 19 pandemic??

The government should have their own cold storage for cases like these

Wow, I wasn’t even aware that they could deny bodies. That is such a shame on their part.

Because Gaston don’t pay the people

Too many people are dying they don’t have space

What happened to the plans to build their own morgue?

Literally only in Antigua

Priate businesses do reserve the right. The fact is a body like that is going to stay there for months possibly years and the funeral home will have to beg for their money from government

I would love to hear their reasoning for this.

So where they took the body. Doesnt the hospital have a storage?

I think the fact that they are repeatedly left with unclaimed bodies for years at a cost to them, their refusal now is totally understandable

So wah happen now? The body just ah stay deh?

That rough. But dem funeral homes na wrong, cause dem need proper facilities for dat kinda thing.

Lord, what really a go on in this place? Swetes people must be traumatized.

That is shocking!
I thought that to house the deceased was part of their role.
I feel for the person’s family when they discover that a place that is supposed to treat the deceased and their family with respect, refused to adhere to this basic humane action.

Did they identify the body????

This sound like a government issue now. Who responsible for handling bodies in situations like this?

So dem na have proper storage or refrigeration for cases like this?

Boy, Antigua need to start preparing for these kinda things better.

The real question is, how long the body was there before somebody find it?

Dem funeral homes running business, not charity. But somebody haffi deal with this.

If none of dem na want it, then wah the police supposed to do now? put it back wah it come out?????

If Antigua ever get a mass casualty situation, we in real trouble. Because hmmm

Our system obviously not made for such eventualities. When local funeral homes refuses to accept a decomposed body due to its advanced state of decomposition, legal authorities and the deceased family are left with very little alternative measures including immediate burial. Maybe it is time to outfit the public hospital with cold storage facility that is capable of storing a body or two until the post mortem is complete.

With all the negative talking why you all don’t put your money where your mouth is, and open a funeral home for decompose bodies.Just a thought.

Why would they not accept the body is the body more decomposed as we think? What is causing this we need more information

I believe there is a deeper underlying reason for the funeral parlors not accepting the body than we are speculating. It’s not the first time a decomposed body has been found

Lest we forget, these funeral homes are PRIVATE BUSINESSES!

The responsibility for handling human remains, SHOULD REST WITH THE COUNTRY’S CHIEF PATHOLOGIST/MEDICAL EXAMINER/CORONER, HOUSED IN A MORGUE THAT IS OWNED, AND MANAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
The question we should be we should be asking is, “Does Antigua and Barbuda have such a facility?”
“If no, why not?”

There used to be such a space at Holberton Hospital many years ago, but as with most government facilities, it was allowed to deteriorate to the state where it had to be condemned.
In most developed countries, when deaths occur, outside of the care of a doctor or licensed medical facility (and in some instances, even while within such care), the Medical Examiner or whatever title they are known by, takes possession of the remains. Until whatever investigations are completed, whether it’s an autopsy the family requested, or a criminal investigation where autopsy is mandatory, the remains continues in the possession of the State, until authorized to release it to the family for burial: Only then, does the private funeral home come into play.

I am no expert, apart from reading about happenings beyond our shores, so I welcome correction from any who DO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OUR LAW SHOULD BE IN THIS REGARD.

Only thing I can say to our leadership is that we the citizens and residents of Antigua and Barbuda deserve much better.

Wouldn’t be surprised if:
1) The family has not been identified or
2) They afraid the govt might leave them there while they take years to organize a postmortem.

Just speculating

Oh my Gawd!

sad all around…

It’s the government responsibility to provide storage of cadavers in cases like these in conjuction with the police as it pertains to forensic investigations the Main Hospital should have its own mortuary like most Hospitals will have so it now need to be added to Mount St. John’s just for cases like these