Sun, Aug 03, 2003 - Page 6 News List

Zimbabwe morgues overflowing

MORBID ECONOMY Funerals in Harare cost about US$120, or twice the average income of Zimbabweans, so the bodies are just piling up in the nation's hospitals

AP , HARARE, ZIMBABWE

Medical students of anatomy in the past received some bodies voluntarily "donated to science" by individuals in their wills.

Tapfumaneyi said his hospital was now responding to an appeal from the medical school for unclaimed cadavers.

From the first shipment, the Zimbabwe University medical school will choose those suitable for teaching purposes and promised proper burial of their remains afterward.

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