The Ghana Police Hospital says it will undertake a mass burial for the nearly 120 bodies in the hospital’s mortuary. These are unidentified and unclaimed bodies left in the mortuary and this action is to help decongest the morgue.
DSP Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, Head of Public Affairs of the Hospital said in a press release that, “The unidentified and unclaimed bodies are made up of mostly paupers, unknown former patients, abandoned bodies, unidentified accident and crime victims.”
The Hospital by the release is urging members of the general to contact the Pathology Department for identification of persons who might have gone missing over the last few months.
“Members of the general public are also hereby encouraged to acquire the habit of always having their National Identification Card or that of any organisation on them to help the police and others to easily identify them whenever they are here in any health crises or involved in an accident,” DSP Nketia-Yeboah said.
According to the hospital, this identification process will enable the exclusion of such individuals from the mass burial activity, slated for 20 days after 26th November, 2019.
