Daar was in Augustus meer as 3 000 lyke in staatslykhuise oor Suid-Afrika heen wat nie deur familie of vriende opge\u00ebis is nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Onlangse data-insameling deur die nasionale gesondheidsdepartement wys dat daar in Augustus 3 186 lyke in 133 lykshuise was wat nie opge\u00ebis is nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die departement se komitee vir forensiese patologie is hierdie lyke al vir tussen vyf maande en drie jaar onopge\u00ebis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die komitee se verslag is saamgestel uit data van die Na\u00adsionale Vervolgingsgesag, die polisie en staatslykhuise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die twee provinsies met die grootste probleem is KwaZulu-Natal en die Oos-Kaap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die komitee is daar drie faktore wat daartoe lei dat lyke nie ge\u00ebien word nie: Uitdagings in gemeenskappe, probleme by die inrigtings self en probleme op \u2019n munisipale en\/of provinsiale vlak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uitdagings in die gemeenskap verwys na wanneer lyke sonder enige identifikasiedokumente by die lykshuise aankom, familielede nie na die oorledenes soek nie, of wanneer hulle wel uitgeken is, die lyke nie opge\u00ebis word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By die inrigtings waarheen die lyke geneem word, is daar dikwels probleme met die identifikasieproses deur DNS-toetse omdat werknemers nie voldoende toerusting of opleiding ontvang het om die toetse te behartig nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n provinsiale en\/of munisipale vlak gebeur dit soms dat daar nie toegekende plekke in begraafplase beskikbaar is vir die lyke om begrawe te word nie, of die oorledenes is buitelanders wat nie ge\u00efdentifiseer kan word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die komitee kan baie van hierdie lyke nie begrawe of veras word voordat dit duidelik is dat die identiteit van die oorledene nie bevestig kon word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die VF Plus het intussen sy kommer uitgespreek en meen dit plaas groot druk op die bestaande geriewe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philip van Staden, \u2019n VF Plus-LP en hoofwoordvoerder oor gesondheid, s\u00ea in \u2019n verklaring afgesien van die kwessie van gebrekkige identifikasie en naasbestaandes wat bloot nie die oorskot opeis nie, dra onwettige immigrante wat nie ge\u00efdentifiseer kan word nie, verder tot die probleem by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnder faktore is die agterstand en vertraging in die vervoer en ontleding van DNS-monsters, swak gehalte vingerafdrukke, uitstaande ondersoeke, korrupsie waar naasbestaandes moet betaal om gestorwenes te kry, uitstaande toksikologiese verslae, die vertraging in begrafnisse en verassings weens \u2019n tekort aan grafruimte, begrotingstekorte en krematoriums wat nie voldoende funksioneer nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c \u2019n Kerntaakspan sal onverwyld op die been gebring moet word tussen die regering en rolspelers in di\u00e9 bedryf om die probleme daadwerklik te behandel. Dit is reeds \u2019n krisis en kan nie gelaat word om te vererger nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie bevolking groei snel, misdaad neem toe en die vermo\u00eb by hierdie instellings raak toenemend ontoereikend. Dit lyk tans of gesprekke en samewerking tussen die regering en die betrokke rolspelers nog nie \u2019n oplossing kon vind nie,\u201d meld van Staden verder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea van die oplossings wat die VF Plus voorstel, is die implementering van \u2019n digitale vingerafdrukstelsel wat kan help met die identifisering van oorledenes wat by staatslykhuise aankom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSamewerking moet formeel geskied tussen die nasionale regering, rolspelers in die begrafnisbedryf, die departemente van samewerkende regering en tradisionele sake, binnelandse sake en gesondheid, die polisie, die nasionale gesondheidslaboratoriumdiens asook provinsiale en plaaslike regerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLaasgenoemde is waar die probleem eindelik l\u00ea aangaande krematoriums en onvoldoende grafruimte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie opleiding van forensiese beamptes is ook noodsaaklik en die regering van nasionale eenheid (RNE) sal bestaande wetgewing in hierdie verband moet aanpas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBestaande staatslykhuise en krematoriums moet dringend gemoderniseer word en nuwes moet gebou word. Meer grafruimte sal beskikbaar gestel moet word en daar sal op nasionale vlak gehelp moet word met begrotingstekorte vir die instellings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van Staden s\u00ea daadwerklike optrede teen korrupsie is nodig en alternatiewe metodes sal in gebruik geneem moet word om oorskotte te begrawe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie VF Plus sal, soos die afgelope vyf jaar, voortgaan met voortdurende gesprekke met rolspelers in die begrafnisbedryf en private forensiese bedryf. Die situasie kan doodeenvoudig nie voortgaan soos wat tans die geval is nie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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