Bodies pile up at KZN state-owned mortuaries

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Channel: SABC News · 2018 · News & Politics

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More bodies are piling up at government owned mortuaries in KwaZulu-Natal. Employees have been on a go slow for weeks over non-paid wages and poor working conditions. And as a result families waiting to bury their loves ones have to bear the brunt and wait even longer.
Trade Union representing the employees, the Public and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa or PAWUSA, say the Department of Health in the province has failed to meet their demands. Its provincial secretary Halalisani Gumede joins us from our Durban.

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