Workers at the Environmental Health Unit of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly have threatened to boycott the burial of persons who have died of COVID-19 if incentive packages for frontline works in the COVID-19 pandemic fight are not extended to them.
The Unit has so far buried twenty-five (25) COVID-19 casualties from health facilities in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The youngest was 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.
But the Unit Officer, Iddrisu Shaani, in an interview said workers at the unit are unwilling to carry out the remaining burials if their demands are not met. 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.
