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Several families in Limpopo say they’ve recently found the remains of loved ones decomposing at two government hospitals. One patient who asked not be named because he’s a regular at Elim Hospital in the Vhembe District, says he saw the poor conditions in the morgue first-hand when his mother died in August. “My mother was a regular patient at the hospital for kidney dialysis. When she passed on we were informed by the hospital. But when we went there the following day, we found her lying on the hospital mortuary floor among several decomposing human bodies,” he tells Health-e News. “The smell was unbearable in the mortuary. Everything was dead inside, no electricity, no water, just decomposing human bodies.” According to Jeffrey Khosa, chairperson of Waterval-Hlanganani Development Forum, the issues at the Elim Hospital’s morgue have been consistent since 2013. Jennifer Baloyi* says after being informed that her teenage son

