A Kagiso family was shocked when the body of a relative of theirs was left in a storeroom to rot at the Randwest Care Centre in Randfontein on the West Rand.
Sipho Jwara, 44, had been an in-patient at the psychiatric hospital for more than 20 years.
Family spokesman Mbulelo Zimba said they received a call from the hospital last Friday, informing them that Jwara had died.
"We went there but were told that we could not take the body because there was no doctor to sign the death certificate. We were told to come back on Monday," he said.
The family returned on Monday but to their surprise assistant nursing manager Trudy van der Merve could not locate the body.
"She assumed that Doves Undertakers had collected the body because the hospital had an arrangement with them," said Zimba, who is a nephew of the dead man.
On Tuesday they received another call from the hospital that the body had been found. They rushed to the hospital with their own undertaker.
The body was located in a storeroom and it was in a state of decomposition.
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