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37 Hospital to bury 281 unclaimed bodies

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  • FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

    Has life become so hard in Ghana that some poor families cannot afford to claim their dead relatives from the morgue for burial?

    Where are we heading to?

  • MARFO 10 years ago

    FOYOOSIS, WISE MAN and BE BOLD. remember the 37 military hospital morgue is not a cemetery nor a museum. Death bodies can't be kept there forever. blame the families and not the government. Remember these are unidentified an ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    This is not about politics but some families simply cannot afford the economic burden of the funeral and that is why they do not want to claim the bodies of their loved ones. The rapid deceleration of the local currency is ca ...
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  • A.A 10 years ago

    May their souls rest in peace

  • wise man 10 years ago

    oh my lord who will save the poor ganains from crying day in and out,ghana has become had . even families can not claim their dead bodies .oh god pls help us now

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    with this situation, there are people who still want to retain this government as if they have no conscience. The situation is so sad.

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    Its not a ghana or government problem... its a world/life problem... there are poor people everywhere in this world who are facing the same situation or even worse.

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    We should be grateful that we even have a hospital which is willing to keep the bodies for this long.

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    I don't know how much you paid to defend the government but the economic situation is simply not acceptable, no matter how much you spin. Our concern at the moment is Ghana and not how much of poverty in other parts of the wo ...
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  • backto 10 years ago

    If possible give all their details, because some families may not know that their beloved ones are lying there. They may think they have travel abroad.

  • KWAME, BELGIUM 10 years ago

    The Ministry of Health can keep these bodies and give them to the various medical faculties in the country for research.

  • HONEST CITIZEN 10 years ago

    If 37 Military is keeping 281 bodies then it will be worse at Police Hospital where most of the unknown bodies are sent. God have mercy on us.When the people of Israel sin against the Lord , He sends a wicked leader to rule t ...
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  • Linda Smith 10 years ago

    I have a Norwegian Friend, Thomas Crespo who went over to Ghana in July 2011 on a Mining project. I have kept in touch with him until February 10 (my last correspondence with him) He was hospitalized in Dec 2013 from a car ...
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