It’s expensive to treat the dead with dignity. This seems to be the message from a bizarre story from Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. A waste disposal contractor for Lagos University Teaching Hospital has been  arrested after he was caught looking for a burial spot in the bush for about 70 dead babies. He claimed that he was employed to bury them in a cemetery but was not given enough money. A hospital official said that the incident was “embarrassing” and declared that the hospital was investigating the incident.

According to the BBC, many families are too distraught or too indigent  to care for dead babies and they abandon them outside hosptitals. It seems to be a case of gross mismanagment, but police are inquiring whether ritual ceremonies or organ trafficking was involved. ~ BBC,  July 7