Workers shut down the Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg on Monday and Tuesday, turning away families who had come to fetch the bodies of loved ones. Workers have been on a go-slow for two weeks, demanding a wage increase and better working conditions. On Monday workers barricaded the road, blocking the mortuary gates..
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Workers shut down the Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg
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Mortuary out of hell! – Pietermaritzburg mortuary is filled with rotting corpse , no supply of cleaning chemicals and a air-conditioning system that is not functioning since 2014 – Way to go ANC!
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The smell hits you as soon as you enter the reception area. Workers say the air-conditioning system has not been working since 2014. The workers, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation, took GroundUp on a short tour of the mortuary. Outside the reception area is a kitchen, and the toilets..
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Deceased child’s body missing – Grieving family wants answers
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There still have not been any developments in the case of the baby’s body which went missing from the Pinetown mortuary.
The Daily News had on the plight of a distraught couple whose 7-month-old boy Sikhosana Mosemene had died suddenly on March 26 at a local informal day-care centre and whose body went missing from the mortuary.
The provincial Department of Health’s response yesterday has been disputed by frustrated father Seboda Mosemene.
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