THE post-mortem of a Harare man who was allegedly murdered in Mbare last Friday and whose family had been advised the procedure could only be done next month will be done today.
Dumisani Sibanda
NewsDay had it from impeccable sources yesterday that the government had secured the services of a forensic pathologist who resigned from government in 2008 to do the job.
Relatives of Kenneth Chikanya (27) who was fatally stabbed in Mbare during an armed robbery had been advised the post-mortem required by the police as part of its investigations would be done next month as government’s only forensic pathologist, an expatriate, Gabriel Aguero Gonzalez, was away in Cuba attending a family funeral.
The acting clinical director at Harare Hospital — where the postmortem was supposed to be carried out — Dr Alfred Mukosi — said in an interview yesterday that a solution to the problem had been found.
“The post-mortem will be done tomorrow (today) at Parirenyatwa Central Hospital by the former government forensic pathologist (Dr Maxwell) Mapunda,” he said.
Mapunda, who is from Tanzania, resigned from government in 2008. The shortage of pathologists has resulted in piling up of bodies of murder victims requiring post mortem at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
On Monday, Health and Child Care minister Dr David Parirenyatwa described the shortage of pathologists as a “crisis”.
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It is a requirement that in a case of murder there should be a report from a forensic pathologist to determine the cause of death.
Meanwhile, the two people implicated in the murder of Chikanya, Tinashe Chikosha and Walter Nyenyere yesterday appeared before Mbare Provincial Magistrate Reuben Mukavi and were remanded in custody to October 15.
