Trauma and Specialist hospital to conduct mass burial for 36 bodies in its mortuary

The Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital has served a notice that it will soon organise a mass burial for some 36 unclaimed bodies in its mortuary.

The bodies, which were largely deposited by police officers, will be buried on June 8, 2020.

With the ban on social gathering as part of measures to tame coronavirus spread still in force, most hospital morgues are struggling to cope with the unclaimed corpse.

Although President Akufo-Addo’s executive instrument allows private burials of not more than 25 people, very few families are taking advantage of it.

Most families have adopted a wait-and-see strategy.

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To prevent their morgues from being choked, many hospitals are being forced to conduct mass burial for unidentified and unclaimed bodies.

The Hospital’s Medical Director, Dr Prah George Kwame, in a statement said, “the general public is being informed to contact and claim bodies of their relatives who are suspected to be dead or have not been seen in a couple of weeks.”

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Failing to do so, the hospital advised,  “will result in a mass burial of the 36 unclaimed bodies after 21 days of the date of publication.”

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Find details of the hospital’s statement