The MOWAG chairman revealed how he and his colleagues have had to work with no gloves and other important equipment for years.

Mr Akpakudi said after several complaints to the government, they were provided with surgical gloves which did not meet the requirements for handling dead bodies.

Part of the challenges faced by the MOWAG membership, according to him, is the absence of standby generators for the morgues.

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“When power goes off, the bodies are affected and when they defreeze the fluids that drip into pans placed beneath the freezers sometimes come into contact with our skin, making us prone to many infections,” he explained.

The senior diener further recounted how one of his colleagues, in an attempt to remove a body, swallowed housefly that just landed on the dead body.

He disclosed that an average mortuary worker makes as little as GHC 800 a month even though they engage in 24-hour duty shifts.

Only identified as Awele on social she shared the pathetic story of being tormented and starved by the second wife of her father but in the midst of all these challenges struggled to achieve her current feet.

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Read the story below;

I was abandoned by my mother at the age of seven months (7months) with my father and stepmother. My stepmother was mean. I endured all manner of maltreatments she meted at me. Sometimes I went hungry for days. She would so starve me that I would be seeing death. On one occasion, I was very hungry that I had to eat our dog’s leftovers food.

Our neighbour’s son caught me eating the dog’s leftover food (eba and egusi) and he told his mother who later that evening invited me to her house and asked me if what her son said was true.

I was so terrified that I begged her not to tell my step mother, because she will kill me if she knew that I ate the dog’s leftover instead of throwing it away. The woman wept and promised to give me food every day without my stepmother’s knowledge, a promise she kept till we left the compound.

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As if starving me was not enough punishment, my Stepmother flogged me mercilessly until I would faint at times. She would also apply pepper in my vagina, eyes, armpit and neck, tie me up and abandon me in one of the toilets for days without food. Despite all these experiences.

I was very bright academically and was loved and favored by God and people. I knew that the only way to escape was to achieve educational success, so I never joked with schooling. So you see, I have every right to be hateful, bitter, jealous, arrogant, sad, negative and toxic but I chose not to.

~ Awele

Source: Mynewsgh.com