Edward Mensah Akpakudi, the National Chairman of the Ghana Mortuary
Workers Association (MOWAG) has disclosed how a pastor and some
congregants in Sunyani beat up a mortuary worker there because the
latter refused to let them resurrect one of their members who had died
earlier in the day.
“One of our members was called to come back to the hospital because
some people have come requesting that they see the body of their member
because their pastor said the person is not dead but alive, so they want
to pray for him. The mortuary worker responded in affirmative but these
church folks had to beat him up,” he told KSM on Bo Me Nkomo show.
Mr Akpakudi who has been working in the mortuary for about 24-years
alleged that the facility head at that hospital went behind the mortuary
association to take GHC300.00 compensation for the victim and left the
matter to rest.
According to him, their nature of work is very wearisome and those in
authority have abandoned them to their fate as several pleas have fallen
on deaf ears.
He lamented that they work 24 hours a day because there is no way for
them to close as the death of people is not regulated by particular
times of day.
The mortuary workers were on strike seeking for better conditions of service.
Mr Akpakudi said the association has been battling with the government
to increase their salaries and improve their condition of service for a
number of months but to no avail.
Meanwhile, the association have since called-off their strike, hoping for their grievances to be addressed by the government.
