The Ghana Police Hospital administration says it is going to perform a mass burial of roughly 200 unclaimed and unknown our bodies at the moment deposited in its mortuary in Accra on March 28, this 12 months.
The train, based on the Medical Director of the Police Hospital, Commissioner of Police (COP) Dr Samuel Out-Nyarko is to decongest the power and enhance storage circumstances for contemporary admissions.
In a press assertion issued in Accra yesterday copied the Ghanaian Instances, the administration has appealed to most people particularly members of the family of circumstances of lacking individuals to contact the pathology division of the hospital to determine and declare any deceased member of the family earlier than the deadline of the scheduled date of Friday March 28, 2025.
The Police Hospital, it’s recalled, carried out related mass burial for seven unclaimed our bodies on the Very Vital Persona (VIP) mortuary at Bogoso within the Western Area on February 25, this 12 months who had been deposited there for about 20 months.
The our bodies included people who had been victims of car accidents, deserted stays and people who succumbed to crime associated accidents.
This was regardless of the quite a few makes an attempt by the police at Bogoso to find subsequent of kin of the deceased individuals.
In the meantime, the Police Hospital administration has suggested the general public on the significance of guaranteeing that non-public identification paperwork had been saved updated as this might assist stop people from being categorized as unknown in within the unlucky occasion of their passing, including , at all times carry a legitimate identification.
“Whereas we’re deeply saddened by this mass burial, we consider that this serves as a reminder to all of us concerning the significance of securing our identification and taking crucial precautions for our security.
We name on most people to heed to those messages and assist be sure that nobody else meets such an unlucky finish as an unknown, anonymous physique,” the assertion signed by COP Dr Out-Nyarko added.
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