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Zimbabwe: 13 Bodies Lie Unclaimed At Beitbridge Morgue
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The Herald (Harare)
10 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Harare
Authorities at Beitbridge District Hospital are appealing to relatives of 13 people whose bodies have been lying unclaimed at the mortuary for more than five months to come forward and collect them.
The hospital senior mortuary attendant Mr Lawrence Mhuri said bodies that have been at the facility for some time now are taking up space that could be used for keeping other bodies.
The mortuary was designed to carry six bodies but it is currently carrying over 20 corpses. "We have 13 unclaimed bodies in the mortuary and our main worry is that the mortuary is now gradually getting congested. "Therefore we are appealing to relatives of the deceased persons to come forward and collect the bodies as soon as possible.
"Recently, we visited houses in Dulibadzimu suburb whose addresses had been registered by the deceased at the time of admission at the hospital, but we were told that the deceased were lodgers or were no longer resident at the addresses at the time they visited hospital," said Mr Mhuri. Mr Mhuri gave the names of the deceased as Margaret Ndlovu (46), Munyaradzi Mbatera (48) both of Mwenezi District, Brian Beta (62), Makatso Sibanda (48), Lydia Binduka (35), Given Chinoda, Plaxedes Banda, Brighton Chikoke, all from Dulibadzimu suburb in Beitbridge.
Bodies of Thulani Moyo (26) of Chiredzi, Yemurai Chiwara of Malala area in Beitbridge, Harold Dlamini (34) of House Number 497, New Luveve in Bulawayo and two unknown male adults who were picked up by police along the Limpopo River are also in the mortuary. He said since the mortuary's cooling system constantly broke down because of overloading, the bodies would decompose if left uncollected for long. Mr Mhuri said hospital authorities would soon conduct pauper burials for the bodies if they were not claimed.
Meanwhile, work towards the expansion of the current mortuary to accommodate up to 50 bodies at a time is nearing completion. Plans are afoot for the construction of another mortuary to accommodate bodies in cases being handled by the police.
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Also a new state of the art referral hospital will be constructed under the Beitbridge Redevelopment Programme.
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