PESHAWAR: The management of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) morgue in Peshawar on Saturday refused to accept the body of a transgender person who had been murdered in the Darmangi area earlier in the day.
“They [management] told us that the body was too decomposed…..it would make their freezers dirty,” transgender rights activist Qamar Naseem said, adding that the government contractor had also refused to bury the body. “It is a matter of great shame that the body of a human being is being treated thus,” Naseem said. The activist said the body was now being handed over to the Edhi Foundation for burial. “We had asked the morgue’s management to keep the body for just one night and they even refused to do that,” Naseem said. The morgue at the KMC is the only such facility.
Published in Daily Times, October 22nd 2017.
