Health investigators have found that medical waste that was dumped along the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast had labels and other identifiers like batch numbers ‘deliberately removed’. Medical waste has now been collected from five places on a 25km stretch between Sigidi and Mtentu villages, accordin.
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Police are investigating a case of attempted murder and the possibility of adding further charges against an unknown mother whose newborn baby boy was discovered buried in a Methodist Church building site in the Dikeni village of Cala. Rev Zandisile Mngcita of Methodist Church circuit 324 visited the newborn at Indwe hospital on Monday and indicated he was open to adopting the child if his family could not be traced.
Unprocessed postmortem reports have piled up at the provincial mortuary in Woodbrook, East London, which means families are not getting justice for their loved ones as police are unable to proceed with investigations. Hundreds of postmortem reports remain unprocessed at the mortuary over the past few months.
When Methodist Church steward Mbuyiselo Manyonga set off to find the source of the muffled cries he heard while preparing for Sunday service, he thought there was a cat in distress. However, what he found buried in a shallow grave inside an incomplete building next to the church was not someone’s pet, but a newborn baby boy.