Over 100 unclaimed bodies at the Police Hospital in Ghana will be buried in a mass grave at the Awudome Cemetery in Accra.
The Police hospital Mortuary in Accra designated for unknown bodies is congested and cannot admit new dead bodies by the middle of next month. The hospital has two fridges, one for identified bodies and the other for unknown bodies, which though designed to accommodate 30 bodies, now has over 120.
The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Inspector Juliana Obeng, Speaking to the Times yesterday said the situation had compelled the hospital authorities to transfer some of the bodies to the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital Mortuary.
To solve the problem, the Police Hospital will from Tuesday February 14, begin disposing of all such bodies through mass burial. There hospital is therefore giving relatives and the public who have deposited their dead bodies at the hospital mortuary up to February 14 (valentine’s day) to collect them”, she stressed. Inspector Obeng said failure to collect the bodies would compel the hospital to embark on mass burial.
Inspector Obeng lamented the failure of relatives to claim bodies of their dead even when announcement were made and appealed to the public to take the announcement seriously.
The bodies have been stacked in the hospital’s mortuary for over a year.
Authorities at the hospital have said most of the bodies are those who died through criminal related offences. The Public Relations Officer of the Police Hospital, Chief Inspector Juliana Obeng, told Citi News the exercise is to decongest the morgue.
“It has become necessary because the ridge was built for 30 bodies at a time and has exceeded its capacity. It is now overflowing with over 120 bodies hence the need for a decongestion exercise,” she explained.
Chief Inspector Obeng explained that since most of the persons brought there were criminals or had no identification it made it difficult to trace the family members of the deceased.
25 Febr 2012
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