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The Gauteng Department of Health says it is working on decreasing the backlog of nearly 11 000 outstanding postmortem reports in the province. | Lwandi_N

The Gauteng health department is dealing with a backlog of 10 900 postmortem reports.

The department said that the turnaround time on postmortems was affected by the nature of the death and varies from cases to case. Of those, 2 308 were at the forensic chemistry laboratory and the rest at the forensic pathology laboratories. The department said the turnaround time on postmortems varied due to the complex nature of the procedure and the various departments involved in each case.

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