New Juaben South Municipal Environmental Officer , Emmanuel Tetteh, is calling for investigation into the circumstances under which mortuary workers at the Eastern Regional Hospital secretly released a covid-19 corpse to the family .
There was drama Sunday March 14,2021 when environmental officers from the Assembly noticed that mortuary workers at the hospital has released the corpse to the family dawn before their arrival .
The bereaved family reportedly sent the body for burial service in SDA Church.
After hours of failed search for the whereabout of the body , the angry environmental officers went to the cemetery to block the family from going ahead to bury the body of the late Madam Janet Nyarkoa.
The situation turned chaotic when the family later arrived at the cemetery to bury the body which was in a hearse .
The Municipal Environmental officer insisted that the family followed him to report the case at the Police station before they will be allowed to bury the body which the family obliged after minutes of argument.
” I had to prevent them because I don’t know where they took the body to. So find out from the mortuary . The body was released at the morgue so find out from the morgue who released the body to the family members without an officer . I should have been there before the body released to the family . I should have been present . So who gave the body to the family . I will be happy if you do that investigation.Because when I got there to supervise the burial, the body was not there so I rather had to stop them at the cemetery so we reported at the Police Station,” Emmanuel Tetteh told mybrytfmonline.com.
The Municipal Environmental said it was wrong for the mortuary workers at the Eastern Regional Hospital to release a Covid-19 body to the family knowing the protocols for burial of such bodies .
“The body shouldn’t have been released . Because it is a covid case the body shouldn’t have been released to the family at the morgue because they know the protocol . So find out who released the body to the family at morgue”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
