Authorities at the Police Hospital in Accra are preparing for a mass burial of some 120 unclaimed bodies to ease congestion at the morgue. The authorities say the morgue is full and they need to make space for fresh corpses. The hospital’s Director of Public Relations, Chief Inspector Juliana Obeng tells Joy News the Police Hospital is losing huge sums of money. “The hospital is…one of the things we do to generate money and so when it happens that way it means that people are getting into the mortuary without paying anything to the hospital. One way or the other, it does disturb our internal generation of funds. We can’t actually tell you how much money we are losing but we are losing some money,” she said. “We are appealing to the public to come for identification and collection otherwise we’d do the usual mass burial.” The latest threat of mass burial comes after another one in December last year in which hospital authorities said 400 unclaimed bodies would be cleared. In April 2009, another mass burial was undertaken for 125 bodies. Statistics at the hospital indicate a steady rise in the number of unidentified bodies sent to the hospital's mortuary. In 2007 for instance, 278 unclaimed bodies were buried while 373 were buried in 2008. Hospital authorities say the situation has been so because many bodies deposited at the hospital are not identified. Story by Seth Kwame Boateng and Fiifi Koomson/Myjonline.com/Ghana