Postpone your deaths until our strike is over – Mortuary Staff Union warns public
Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary of mortuary workers Union is
asking persons who wish to die to wait until they resume work after
their strike action which comes off on November 20, 2018, MyNewsGh.com
has filed.
“Those who intend to die during that period should wait when mortuary
men are back to work they die. Simple” he sounded a word of caution
indicating that their planned strike action will come off as planned
unless government heeds to their concerns.
Mortuary men in public health facilities are up in arms with the
government over their poor working conditions and are therefore
demanding improved services including the salaries they say is nothing
good to write home about.
According to the aggrieved morticians, they are exposed to several
diseases in view of the dead bodies and chemicals they come into contact
with but each time they raise concerns, the government appears to be
dragging its feet. “The chemicals we use give us five different kinds of
cancers, the government is aware of this situation. We are also at risk
of blindness but nobody is addressing our challenges.’’ He bemoaned.
Asked what will ensure they back down on their strike action, he stated
“anything short of solutions will not affect our strike… We are laying
down our tools”
Speaking on their sufferings that go unnoticed by authorities of the
various public health facilities, Jordan revealed “ When you die and you
die at the hospital, the mortuary man becomes the porter, he goes to
bring the body from the ward to the mortuary. He is the same person who
will do the cleaning of the mess that is caused by the dead people in
the mortuary. The same person is in charge of embalming the body,
preserving the body through the infusion of chemicals to save the body
from temporary decay.
