KOMBI OWNERS TO HELP BURY 26 PAUPERS

MBABANE – The Swaziland Local Transport Association (SLTA) has come through to assist government conduct a pauper’s funeral for the 26 corpses currently kept at the Mbabane Government Hospital morgue.

Members of the association said they were also human and wanted to give back to the nation.
Mandla Dlamini, the chairman of the association, stated that they were willing to pay the E6 396 to conduct the pauper’s funeral for the 26 corpses as a way of helping out government.

This means the corpses, which have been kept at the Mbabane Government Hospital morgue for a long time will be finally laid to rest.
This money is supposed to be paid to the City Council of Mbabane, for the burial of people who have not been claimed by their relatives.

“As part of the Eswatini nation, we want to help government through paying for the graves to bury these people. We want to show that we do not only want money from commuters, but we want to look after them even after they pass on. Asifuni kubukeke ngatsi bantfu bemakhumbi abanangcondvo,” Dlamini said.
He further explained that they would be visiting the hospital as an association, to meet the relevant people to make the payment today.

He narrated that they were saddened by the article when they read it in this newspaper, that there were people who had been lying in the morgue for years.
Hospital Administrator Cebile Dlamini could not be reached for comment yesterday, as she was reported to be in a meeting.

The corpses were supposed to be buried last year in December and they were 22 at the time but the number has since increased.
An announcement was made through the media last year, that relatives should collect their loved ones’ remains, but nobody came to claim the corpses.
A number of coffins were bought last year by the hospital to conduct the pauper’s funeral.

According to a source, burial ground is charged at E246 per grave by the Municipal Council of Mbabane.
These bodies are of foetuses and adults, who were brought in by the police and some are of those people who died while admitted to the hospital.
The oldest adult body at the morgue was brought in by the Mbabane police, on April 11, 2014 of a caucasion male whose name was unknown. 
On the foetuses, one was brought in on June 17, 2015.

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