The Gauteng department of health has urged those with missing family members to come forward as 938 unclaimed and unidentified bodies lie in the province’s mortuaries.
The Gauteng department of health's mortuaries have more than 900 unidentified and unclaimed bodies. Stock photo.The Gauteng department of health has urged those with missing family members to come forward as more than 900 unidentified bodies lie in the province’s mortuaries.
The city with the highest number of unclaimed and unidentified bodies is Pretoria with 263, followed by Johannesburg with 187. The other mortuaries are Germiston with 127, Sebokeng with 94, Ga-Rankuwa with 69, Springs and Diepkloof with 49 bodies each, Carletonville with 45, Roodepoort with 38, Heidelberg with nine and Bronkhorstspruit with eight.
Families of missing persons can go to the following mortuaries to help identify and claim unidentified bodies.If the deceased is a foreign national, a passport, asylum seeker certificate or letter from their home country confirming the identity of the deceased, and who should receive the remains, are required, he said.
“If the body is still unidentified 30 days after exhausting means of identification, including the use of fingerprints, pauper burial processes are used for the final burial of the deceased.”
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