‘Muslim postmortems can’t be prioritized’: health department
The Western Cape Department of Health has confirmed that historically, the department has tried to prioritize postmortem examinations for deceased of the Islamic faith. But the department’s Marika Champion says it is no longer in a position to do priority postmortems, due to the increasing case load of the forensic pathology service. “We can only do postmortem cases as they present themselves," she told VOC News. She was responding to […]
