KZN health department reacts to Public Protector's 'outrageous' morgue report | BraGrobbies AlexMitchley
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has come out guns blazing following a damning report into its mortuaries.
In a lengthy statement issued on Monday, KZN MEC for Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo said the Public Protector did not find anything consistent with the"outrageous and untruthful claims" that bodies were not properly identified, and that some were lying on the floors and piling up on the trolleys and trays outside mortuary fridges.
"There is sufficient storage for human bodies in the medico-legal mortuaries , including the busiest four MLMs in KwaZulu-Natal. Magwaza Maphalala Mortuary is the busiest mortuary in KwaZulu-Natal, and there was no piling up of bodies as alleged." "There are human mortal remains that get admitted in the MLMs already in a decomposed state. Some are admitted when the process of decomposition has already started. There are separate storage rooms allocated for decomposed bodies. In instances of faulty refrigeration in the cold rooms, bodies are moved to the nearest MLM with sufficient storage capacity."
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