At least one hundred and
sixty (160) “unidentified and unclaimed” bodies are due for mass burial as part
of routine measures to decongest Police Hospital Mortuary, the hospital
administration has announced.
The exercise will take place
21 days after today,Monday, August 19,2019, a Press Statement by the Hospital
said.
“The general public Is
hereby being informed to contact the Pathology Department of the Ghana Police
Hospital for identification of the persons who might have not been seen for
some time as part of the search. This is to avert a situation whereby such
bodies are added to those earmarked for the mass burial after twenty-one (21)
days from this announcement.” the statement signed by DSP Yaw Nketia-Yeboah,
Police Hospital Public Relations Officer said.
It further urged members of
the general public “to acquire the habit of always having their National
Identification Cards or that of any organization on them to help police and
others easily identify them whenever they are in any health crises or involved
in an accident.”
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