PROLONGED GRIEF FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES

MBABANE - It is prolonged grief for families and relatives who have lost their loved ones as funeral arrangements have been put on hold.

Most affected are family members who, before burying their loved ones, want to satisfy themselves with regard to the cause of the death through a post-mortem.

Some funeral arrangements that were scheduled for this weekend have been put on hold, such as that of a man who was said to have been speared by a lunatic and later died in hospital.

His relatives on Wednesday returned dejected after being told that the pathologist who was to conduct post-mortems was indisposed. Three families were also turned away and had to take the bodies of their loved ones to their respective morgues without the procedure to ascertain the cause of death being done.

It was a sad moment for one family when senior family members narrated the sad news that funeral arrangements had to be put on hold as the burial could not proceed before they had satisfied themselves about the actual cause of death.
“We had no choice but to take the deceased back to the Mbabane Burial Benefit Society and it remains a concern how the kingdom can have only one pathologist because had there been other practitioners, they could be standing in for the indisposed specialist,” said a concerned relative who however, requested not to be identified because he was too junior to speak on behalf of the family.

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