The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has allocated to the Police Hospital a portion of the Awudome cemetery for mass burial of unclaimed corpses. The over 400 unclaimed corpses at the hospital’s mortuary has created serious congestion making it impossible for fresh bodies to be accepted. An attempt to dispose of the bodies at a mass burial site at the outskirts of Accra was met with stiff opposition from the people of Bortianor. The administrator of the Police Hospital, DSP Joseph Owusu Bempah, told Joy News the intervention of Accra city authorities has averted what could have been a crisis. Asked about the possibility of cremating the bodies, DSP Bempah said the procedure was an expensive, one the police administration has not budgeted for. “People have the onerous impression that you just go and pack all the dead bodies at a place, you pour petrol or whatever and they are burnt. And that ends the story; that is not the case at all,” he stressed. “I don’t think there is any budget for taking care of unknown persons.” Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana