KZN Health brings in SANDF to alleviate autopsy backlog
The Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal has roped in the SANDF to help ensure bereaved families are able to bury their loved ones this weekend.
Mortuary staff have been on a go-slow since last month and a massive backlog of autopsies has been developing.
MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo says all 31 bodies that had piled up at Stanger Hospital, on the North Coast, will have been handed over by the end of the day.
"I was also part of the team of doctors who was doing the autopsies on those bodies. We are supported by the army and the police. We are all working around the clock and since there's been an illegal strike by other workers."
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The MEC was at Stanger Hospital earlier today.
"I went there among other things to deliver the eight bodies that we have done and to reassure families that more bodies will be brought back to Stanger. The truck will leave Nkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital at 5am so that from 6am - all the other bodies can be taken by the families," Dhlomo said.
