The Sunyani Municipal Assembly and the Bono Regional Hospital have held mass burial for some 33 unclaimed and unidentified bodies to decongest the hospital’s mortuary.
The move, according to the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Justina Owusu Banahene, forms part of routine measures to decongest the hospital’s mortuary.
“We are doing this exercise in consultation with the management of the facilities and stakeholders in environmental health,” she added.
The exercise was carried out with the help of the security agencies in the municipality.
The MCE further called on families to, as a matter of urgency, endeavour to bury their dead relatives early and organise the funeral rites later, to ease congestion at the mortuary.
The Ghana Police Hospital in Accra has announced for the notice of the General Public that it intends to organise a mass burial service for unclaimed bodies at the Police Hospital.
A statement from the hospital said the mass burial has become imperative due to the need to decongest the Police Hospital morgue which has been contested by unidentified and unclaimed bodies.
In the statement which was released on April 17, 2020, signed by DSP Yaw Nketia-Yeboah it said that the process will begin fourteen days after the dissemination of the statement.
However, families who will want to identify their bodies and sign an undertaking to adhere to social distancing and President’s order of Private funeral with people numbering not more than 25 will be given the opportunity to take their bodies away.
The president has lifted the partial lockdown on some parts of the country, whiles public gathering has been banned across the country. Families have the privilege of organising private funerals with not more than 25 people.
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