On Tuesday provincial health spokesperson Kwara Kekana said 2 308 of the postmortem reports were at the forensic chemistry laboratory and the rest at the forensic pathology laboratories. Without giving a breakdown, Kekana said the backlog was as a result of an increase in the number of people dying of multiple gunshot wounds.The turn around times for conducting and producing a postmortem report vary from case to case.
She said on average a postmortem took between 60 minutes and 90 minutes to perform while reports could take between four and six weeks per case to be completed. “This is due to the fact that investigations take place in various divisions. The biochemistry tests for blood and toxicology are conducted at forensic chemistry laboratory whereas a postmortem is conducted at the forensic pathology laboratory. Different circumstances in these divisions determine the time it takes to complete a post-mortem report and also the nature of each case plays a part in the turnaround time,” she said.
Kekana said for instance a single stab wound report may take shorter to complete than a multiple gunshot death case report.There has been a motivation for the review of the staff establishment and organogram in order to bolster the existing staff compliment to cater for the ever increasing Gauteng population and service demands. The department’s forensic pathology services works very closely with the SA Police Service and the department of justice in carrying out this work.
City Press reported earlier that there was also a backlog in forensic tests when it comes to DNA tests in cases of violent crimes. This was flagged by a KwaZulu-Natal judge after a rape accused, who was freed pending a DNA analysis, went on to rape and murder a child.Last April it was reported that the backlog, caused in part by a dispute with a service provider, stood at more than 210 000 cases.
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