STAFF members at the Nankudu District Hospital as well as members of the public continue to complain about the hospital’s mortuary that is in a poor state.
A worker at the mortuary, Nzamene Mukuve told Nampa on Sunday that the mortuary was nearly 30 years old.
“Cabinet doors are broken and do not close properly and the freezer boxes are not cooling the bodies to standard, thus resulting in a foul smell coming from the mortuary,” he explained.
The mortuary, he further explained, has a six-tier cabinet, meaning it can accommodate six bodies, however, most of the time the mortuary accommodates more than six bodies.
Members of the public have to, at times, travel 120 kilometres to take the bodies of their loved ones to the Rundu State Hospital.
The Nankudu District Hospital’s mortuary is bigger than the Nkurenkuru Health Centre’s mortuary that is only a three-tier facility and the one at Mpungu health centre.
Currently, the Nkurenkuru Health Centre’s mortuary is not working, meaning they all depend on the Nankudu mortuary.
Mukuve said the facility needs an urgent facelift as members of the public are also complaining about costs they have to incur when travelling to Rundu and back.
Health executive director Ben Nangombe said the ministry recently met representatives of the Roman Catholic Health Service, under whom the Nankudu hospital falls, who brought the issue to his attention.
He said during the meeting last week, it was agreed that steps would be taken to have the mortuary repaired.
Nangombe said the ministry will have to follow the procurement process and have service providers submit quotations soon.
– Nampa
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