Health workers threaten to boycott burial of COVID-19 persons

According to the Unit Officer, Iddrisu Shaani, workers are unwilling to carry out the remaining burials if their demands are not met. 

The government had announced tax exemption for all health workers, an insurance cover, and an extra 50% of basic salary for all frontline workers during the pandemic.

He said workers at the unit are certainly frontline workers, and it is important that welfare packages promised frontline workers are extended to them.

"The workers at the unit are certainly frontline workers, and it is important that welfare packages promised frontline workers are extended to them," he said.

He added: "So far, we have buried 25 persons who have succumbed to COVID-19 in Cape Coast, the youngest of which was nine months old, and every burial is a risk."

The workers have so far buried twenty-five (25) COVID-19 casualties from health facilities in the Cape Coast Metropolis and the workers buried a nine-month-old baby, while the oldest was seventy-three years old. Twelve others, who have died of the disease, are yet to be buried.