Written by Patience Nyangove
Thursday, 04 February 2010
THE Ministry of Health and Social Services says it will respond to Informanté’s exposé on the 20 bodies of stillborn and premature babies who were found rotting at the Okahandja State Hospital between June and December 2009, this Friday.
The Ministry’s Public Relations officer, Gladys Kamboo said investigations have been concluded and the Okahandja Hospital staff were asked by the Ministry to write reports on the matter.
“I am in the process of compiling the different reports made on the issue and once I am done by Friday and my supervisor goes over the response I will send the Ministry’s response to you,” Kamboo said.
Two weeks ago Informanté reported that bodies of stillborn and premature babies who died between June and December 2009 at Okahandja Hospital have been lying in the mortuary forgotten by the authorities.
The parents were not aware that their babies whose bodies are supposed to be disposed of by the hospital were still in the mortuary months after their deaths.
One of the mothers, Beala Williams-Neels who gave birth to stillborn twins on 7 November 2009 was shocked when a friend asked her if she was failing to give her boys a decent burial. The friend had seen the names of the unburied bodies on the list at the mortuary.
A mortician at the hospital who refused to give his name said the mothers had no idea that their babies’ bodies had not been cremated.
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