{"id":66985,"date":"2014-11-20T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=66985"},"modified":"2014-11-20T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:14:11","slug":"police-hospital-morgue-decongested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=66985","title":{"rendered":"Police hospital morgue to be decongested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Accra Police hospital has called on persons who had deposited bodies at the hospital\u2019s mortuary to claim them ahead of a scheduled decongestion exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the hospital, about 120 unknown bodies would be given mass burial if they are not claimed within eight days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;phL7us4eWvgNi0PusD72XVkpZDFZSCVo&#8221;]According to the Public Relations Officer Juliana Obeng, in an interview with <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> this is because there is an over ceded number of bodies in the unknown department, which has resulted to the morgue fridge to be over working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe number of bodies in the morgue is more than the fridge can take,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that the exercise will involve the city authorities, as they are expected to provide the land, man power and the resources to do the exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are now waiting for the city authority to tell us if the land we are supposed to use for the mass burial exercise is ready; so once they tell us it is ready we will go on with the exercise,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/04\/11\/37-hospital-to-bury-281-unclaimed-bodies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>37 Military Hospital undertook a similar exercise<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in April 2014 after management of the hospital could not trace the family members of about 261 bodies.\u00a0The bodies comprised 254 children and 27 adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Patricia Conteh\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Police hospital has called on persons who had deposited bodies at the hospital\u2019s mortuary to claim them ahead of a scheduled decongestion exercise. According to the hospital, about 120 unknown bodies would be given mass burial if they are not claimed within eight days. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;phL7us4eWvgNi0PusD72XVkpZDFZSCVo&#8221;]According to the Public Relations Officer Juliana Obeng, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-66985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}