RFM ‘FORGIVES’ STAFFER WHO SOLD HUMAN PARTS, WATER FROM CORPSES

MANZINI – The Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital, which opened a case with the police on the sale of human body parts and water used to wash corpses, has revealed that the implicated employee is still working for the institution.

The employee made a confession regarding the matter.

Three years later, the hospital administration said after investigations, the employee, during a meeting, confessed that he was behind the commission of the offences.
He is said to have apologised and was not suspended or fired by the hospital. “We dealt with the matter internally and the employee is still with the hospital after he confessed to those offences,” RFM Hospital Administrator Leonard Dlamini said briefly during an interview.

The hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the time, Dr Beauty Makhubela, confirmed that the matter had already been reported to the police and investigations had commenced. Police had also confirmed that investigations were ongoing and no arrests had been made.
Well-placed sources within the hospital revealed that the administration mapped a way forward on how to improve security to avoid such serious offences from being committed again. It was gathered that the hospital still does not have surveillance cameras.

However, security officers were added and they roam around and outside the hospital 24 hours a day. In 2013, journalists from the Times SUNDAY embarked on an investigation after receiving a tip-off that human body parts were being sold at the hospital.

During the investigation, it was also gathered that it was not easy harvesting external body parts but much easier with internal ones as most relatives scrutinised the bodies externally.
People at the time raised their concerns and said they were no longer comfortable taking dead family members to the RFM morgue. Some patients said they were now worried about taking the hospital’s medication.

Most employees at the hospital remained shocked by the issue and preferred not to comment as they revealed that it was a sensitive matter. The employees were exposed after it was discovered that they allegedly sold the human body parts and water used for washing corpses to criminals and traditional healers as well.

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