Family buries stranger after Covid-19 body mix-up: An Eastern Cape widow told News24 that due to a bungle at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital’s mortuary, the body of her husband was mixed up with that of someone else.
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.
SA widow ‘traumatised after burying wrong man’: A South African woman had to hold two funeral services for her husband who had died from Covid-19 after it was discovered that his body had been swapped for another man’s, News24 reports.
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.
South Africa: Eastern Cape Field Hospital Admits First COVID-19 Patients: The first field hospital to open its doors in the Eastern Cape, the Rev Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni Field Hospital, admitted its first patients on Wednesday night. Eastern Cape premier Oscar …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.
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