Family members of Amanful Adwinadze and the staff of Cape Coast-Bakaano Metro Hospital morgue engaged in a near fisticuff on Friday, March 31, 2023, following the burial of their corpse by the wrong family.
Report indicates that the family confronted the hospital morgue after realising that their deceased relative had been handed over to another family to be buried.
According to Sompa FM, the deceased, Albert Kingsley Annan-Biney, 74, who died on October 12, 2022, had been mistakenly buried for almost five (5) months before his family had a hint of the shocking incident.
The family had gone for the body of their relative at the morgue when they realised that their corpse had been exchanged. They trek to Putubiw Apewosika in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District in the Central Region to exhume the decomposing body of their relative for reburial in Cape Coast.
Some family members attributed the mistake to the negligence of mortuary attendants at the Cape Coast-Bakaano Metro Hospital. They accused some morgue staff of taking hard liquors and smoking extensively whiles on duty.
The caretaker of the Cape Coast Metro Hospital’s Mortuary Department, Emmanuel Ato Mensah popularly known as ‘Rasta’, refuted the allegations that some of the attendants take in hard drugs and alcohol while on duty.
The mortuary attendant admitted that the incident is one of those rare errors mostly encountered by institutions.
