Medical Student Receives Shocking Of His Life When He Missing Friend’s Body Surfaced In Anatomy Class

A Nigerian medical student had an extreme shock when he saw his friend’s body in an anatomy class he was taking at medical school.

Enya Egbe was in his anatomy class at the University of Calabar in Nigeria on a Thursday afternoon when he saw his friend.

The body lying on the table belonged to his friend called Divine, who he had been friends with for over seven years. Egbe told the BBC, ‘We used to go clubbing together.

Ana went on to say how one morning she had ever seen a police van dropping off bloodied bodies at their medical school, which had a mortuary attached to it.

After seeing the body, Egbe messaged Divine’s family. The family had been trying to track Divine down by visiting different police stations after he was arrested with three friends after a night out. Thankfully, Divine’s family were able to finally reclaim his body.

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In Nigeria, current law gives ‘unclaimed bodies’ in government mortuaries to medical schools.

According to 2011 research in the medical journal Clinical Anatomy, more than 90% of the bodies used in Nigerian medical schools are ‘criminals killed by shooting’. This means the bodies have been suspects shot dead by security forces. Their estimated ages are between 20 to 40 years, 95% being male and three out of four being from a lower socio-economic class background.

Emeka Anyanwu, a co-author of the study, noted Nigeria’s lack of development in relation to the use of bodies in medical schools. She said: ‘Nothing has changed 10 years later.’

Police have maintained that most of the missing people were armed robbers and were killed due to an exchange of gunfire. Police spokesperson Frank Mba told the BBC that he did not know about any police dumping bodies in anatomy labs or mortuaries.

He wrote that he had to put three bodies into a van on one night, a task known as ‘ambulance duty’. He claimed the police then chained him inside the van with the bodies, taking him to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) to offload them before they were taken away by a mortuary attendant.

Nnamani told the BBC that he was later threatened with the same fate.

The administrator of the mortuary, Ugonna Amamasi said: Sometimes, the police try to strong-arm us into accepting bodies but we insist that they take them to a government hospital. Private mortuaries are not authorised to donate bodies to medical schools but government mortuaries can.

If bodies are not claimed over a certain period of time, they are then sent to teaching hospitals, noted senior lawyer, Fred Onuobia. But in extrajudicial killings, relatives do not get to know about the deaths and subsequently, the body of a loved one is unable to be located. Despite Egbe’s traumatic experience, it was lucky he saw Divine so that Divine’s family were able to reclaim his body.