Rats feasting on corpses in mortuaries: MP

MDC legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday claimed bodies are being eaten by rats due to lack of properly refrigerated facilities at most mortuaries in the country.

Mushonga (MDC) asked Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa in the National Assembly to explain if his ministry compensated people who collected corpses of their dead relatives in a deplorable state after being eaten by rats.

But Parirenyatwa said the allegations were not true.

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