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Crime a major reason for autopsy backlog at Hillbrow Mortuary - GP Health Dept

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The Gauteng Health Department has identified crime as one of the major reasons bodies are piling up at the Hillbrow mortuary.

Earlier this week, Eyewitness News reported that bodies were being released late for burial due to a backlog with autopsies.

It said that most of the bodies being examined at the mortuary were those that died to criminal activities such as shootings. He said that this figure was more than the annual number of post-mortems completed in some provinces.

 

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