A former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosah has expressed disgust at the way the bodies of those who died in the fire at the Goil fuel station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle were transported to the morgue.<\/p>\n
He was of the view that a similar situation in other countries especially in more developed countries would have seen the bodies being wrapped in body bags.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”g0LirSQz5YGDXQIIW0TPLBKIRgNWANga”]\u201cAnywhere else, all the bodies would have been put in body bags and the body bags would have been appropriately transported to the morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n
After last Wednesday\u2019s floods and fire outbreak at the Goil Fuel Station<\/strong>,<\/span><\/a> there were pictures and video footages of the dead bodies being put into the bucket of trucks and being transported to the morgues without any covering.<\/p>\n Prof. Badu Akosah told Citi News,<\/strong> the manner in which the bodies were handled was unprofessional and must not be repeated under any circumstances.<\/p>\n He explained that he was \u201cvery distressed the way their bodies were just hurled into the bucket of the pick-ups.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him, it did not \u201cin any way dignify the human beings who had lost their lives under such tragic circumstances. I think as a country, we can do better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n Prof Akosah pointed out that because the incident was a national catastrophe, \u201cthe first thing I would have thought that the morgues will do will be that if they do not have a cold room, they will embalm the bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is almost like a certificate of urgency so what you need to do is to preserve the each body in as near the state in which it was brought to the morgue as possible even before relations are brought in to indentify the bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n He noted that the families of the victims are already apprehensive while getting into the morgue to identify their relatives \u201cso if you expose more than one body to most people, they will not be actually looking at the body they have come to identify.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn most cases, you present the bodies in a manner that they can go from body to body to be able to identify.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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