The Ghana Police Hospital management says it will carry out a mass burial of approximately 200 unclaimed and unknown bodies currently deposited in its mortuary in Accra on March 28, this year.
The exercise, according to the Medical Director of the Police Hospital, Commissioner of Police (COP) Dr Samuel Out-Nyarko is to decongest the facility and improve storage conditions for fresh admissions.
In a press statement issued in Accra yesterday copied the Ghanaian Times, the management has appealed to the general public especially family members of cases of missing persons to contact the pathology department of the hospital to identify and claim any deceased family member before the deadline of the scheduled date of Friday March 28, 2025.
The Police Hospital, it is recalled, carried out similar mass burial for seven unclaimed bodies at the Very Important Personality (VIP) mortuary at Bogoso in the Western Region on February 25, this year who had been deposited there for about 20 months.
