Back in medical school,
We had to cut up human corpses who they told us were “armed robbers” and “criminals”.

I know better now. It was a lie.
Those are victims of Police/SARS killings.

This is why some families never see their kids again. Our medical schools need an overhaul.

Sometimes there on the dissection table- while in the anatomy labs- you can literally see bullet holes in the bodies. A friend has found a bullet still lodged in one of the bodies before.

They called them “cadavers”.
But that was someone’s son. Someone’s dad. Someone’s sister.

They lied to us that those bodies were “unclaimed”, that they were “criminals” and “armed robbers”.

Did we have any proofs of what they said? NONE.

We blindly believed them and simply cut up those bodies because we were instructed to. Looking back now, I feel empty and broken.

We must have a Truth and Reconciliation Panel across all sectors.

The truth will bring pain.
But that’s the only way to get healing.

Many doctors are damaged from having to cut up corpses of “criminals” who must have been SARS victims.

But nobody is having this conversation.

Nigerian medical schools must now move beyond using dead bodies for anatomy teaching.

We can 3D images and electronic means of teaching the same knowledge. The practice of cutting cadavers is barbaric, outdated and just unnecessary.

Our medical schools need a massive overhaul.