A senior environmentalist and health expert Alhaji Seidu has urged the general public to take their environmental health issues seriously to avoid outbreaks of disease.
Speaking to Nana Yaw Abrompah about the dumping of six decomposing bodies at the Nkwanta South Municipal Assembly on Plan B FM morning show NKOKOSOUNSEM, Alhaji Seidu believes that the issue could cause sickness in the area if those dead bodies were infected with sickness before their death,
“There is a law that permits the government to burry any dead body if their families could not be traced and those dead bodies are mostly not treated with formalin so it starts generating bad scent few minutes it was taken out from the morgue and whoever smells could be infected but it was unfortunate that happened”
The Environmental Health Service Officers at Nkwanta South in the Oti Region have deposited six decomposing bodies at the Assembly office.
These were unidentified decayed bodies picked from Nkwanta Municipal Mortuary and St Catholic Mortuary on Wednesday for burial.
However, the Environmental Officers abandoned the bodies over the assembly’s refusal to provide them with GHS100 for fuel.
Information gathered indicates the bodies were left at the assembly for hours amidst heavy rainfall without anybody attending to the environmental health officials.
However, Nkwanta South MP, Geoffrey Kini, later made provision for the fuel for the corpses to be buried.
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