Canada

A grieving mother says her daughter is one of dozens of bodies being stored in Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital, lying unclaimed and prolonging the pain her family is going through.

Janice Strickland said the high cost of funerals and government inaction is what's keeping her daughter in a freezer unit and not buried.

In March, CBC News reported 28 bodies were being stored in freezer units outside the Health Sciences Centre due to a lack of space in the morgue, which doubles as the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Newfoundland and Labrador families on income support can apply for provincial government assistance for up to $2,338 to help with cremation or burial costs, but that figure hasn't changed in nearly two decades.