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The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has described as a myth claims that some male staff have sex with female corpses lying in the mortuary. There’s been a long-held notion in Ghana that some mortuary men whenever they feel for sex, identify female bodies they consider ‘appealing’ to them, and strangely have …

Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has debunked reports that mortuary workers often have sex with corpses in the morgue. Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary, MOWAG said in Kumasi yesterday that “These are all blatant falsehoods that some people peddle just to tarnish our image. It can never be true.” …

Mortuary workers in the country have agreed to call off their intended strike after successful negotiations with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations as well as the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, 30 September 2020. The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) threatened to strike over poor working conditions …

Several bereaved families preserving their dead at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital on Monday thronged the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to withdraw their corpses. They feared the pending strike of mortuary workers will deal a devastating blow to their funeral plans and in the worse case, the shape of the …

The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has announced its intentions of embarking on an industrial strike, effective 1 October 2020. A press statement issued by the General Secretary of the group, Richard Kofi Jordan on 27 September 2020 indicated the strike is a result of the employer (Ministry of …

The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana is threatening to deal with a Cameroonian- Ghana based mortuary worker at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. According to the group, the man, identified as Shakar Lukas, is a ‘goro’ mortuary man who is only defaming the occupation. Speaking on Adom FM’s Social Discussion Segment, ‘Y’asem Nie’, …