Autopsy backlog following PMB mortuary go-slow
The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department says it's instructed its legal team to get an interdict - to force forensic pathology staff, who have gone on a go-slow at a Pietermaritzburg state morgue, to return to their posts.
Officials claim the workers at the Fort Napier morgue did not declare a dispute before embarking on the action.
The department says this has led to a backlog of autopsies.
It says the facility usually performs between 10 and 12 a day - but currently - only two are being completed daily.
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MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo has had to stepped in - performing some of the autopsies himself.
"The families are here - desperate, crying and are supposed to have buried their loved ones over the weekend but did not. I'm here making sure that families will be able to bury [their loved ones]. There are certain families that are desperately wanting to - and we need to make sure that they do," Dhlomo said.
