Bodies piling up in BCM
Growing backlog in postmortems at Woodbrook state mortuary adding ‘salt to the wound’ for bereaved families
East London’s only state mortuary is in a state of turmoil, with bodies piling up and having to be transported more than 100km for postmortems to be done at out-of-town facilities...
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