The government of Newfoundland and Labrador made a legislation change four months ago meant to tackle the growing number of unclaimed bodies being held in freezer units at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s — but it has yet to bury a single person.
According to the amended legislation, which was filed on Dec. 24 and came into effect on Jan. 1, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services (NLHS) has the power to bury unclaimed remains after two weeks of searching for next of kin and then five days after the identity of the person is posted online on a dedicated website.
The website also has yet to launch.
And don’t forget, this is pretty sensitive stuff. So you have to make sure that it’s a well built website or it’s going to be a disaster. It’s not just a page, it has to have some kind of content system behind it that non-programming staff can interact with and keep up to date.
Thing is if the NL gov’t had thought this was important they would have made sure IT staff was available. By not doing so, and with 27 unclaimed bodies (???) in storage, they’ve made it clear the announcement was made simply to appease the rabble.
Gov’ts MUST be held accountable in all things.
Nah, just get ChatGPT to do it.