A team of 11 environmental officers is carrying out a ‘supervised’ burial of five folks who died of Covid-19.
The 5 insert to 16 other burials by now undertaken by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)’s Community Overall health Directorate leaving 27 exceptional bodies to be disposed off.
Forty-eight folks have so far died from the ailment with much more than 10,000 other folks infected.
Director of General public Health and fitness at the Assembly, Florence Kuukyi instructed JoyNews as of Thursday, 32 people experienced registered with the Assembly to choose treatment of the burial of their lifeless kin.
“Before these days, 26 people had registered with us, but as of this early morning we have 32.”
Madam Kuukyi stated, “the 5 we are burying now are all male. We will adhere strictly to the protocols as we have completed considering that the outbreak.”
With issue more than the handling of the lifeless in other countries with a enormous demise toll, the General public Wellbeing Directorate claims it would “offer those who succumb a dignified burial.”
Burial procedure
Soon after the bodies are retrieved from the hospital morgue, they are taken by a regimented method, in advance of remaining buried.
Madam Kuukyi stated, “a range of the staff will be dispatched to the cemetery though other people go to the various healthcare facility morgues for the bodies.”
She explained some households donated entire body luggage and coffins to be applied to bury their useless.
“We put the bodies in the bag and then place them in the coffin, under supervised escort to the cemetery.”
“The Public Wellness Directorate has a good deal of get the job done at hand and so we have determined that we bury 5 to six bodies each individual 7 days so we never get overwhelmed at this stage,” Madam Kuukyi stated.
The five bodies becoming buried right now are from the 37 Armed service Medical center and Higher Accra Regional Medical center morgues.