Koforidua Regional Hospital to embark on mass burial

Koforidua, Oct. 22, GNA - Management of the Koforidua Regional Hospital has appealed to the public to help identify relatives of seven unclaimed bodies that had been in the morgue over the past two years. The hospital said in a statement on Friday that that it would be forced to conduct mass burial of the bodies, two weeks after the publication of the information.

The dead bodies are Yaw Atta, male, 78, suspected to be a Krobo and the body was deposited at the hospital from Obawale, near Asesewa, Adamu, male, 50, suspected to be a northerner and was deposited at the hospital from Koforidua, Bertha Yeboah, female, 35, suspected to be an Akyem and was deposited at the hospital from Koforidua. Others are Kwame Boateng, male, 40, suspected to be an Akan and was deposited at the hospital from Accra, Kofi Tetteh, male, 36, suspected to be a Krobo and was deposited at the hospital from Koforidua and Candy Asamoah, male, 12, suspected to be an Ashanti and was deposited at the hospital from Koforidua.