A disgrace
published: Monday | August 4, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

WHAT KIND of service are we, the relatives of our loved ones, receiving from the public morgue system, especially at post-mortem examinations? Why can't Kingston have its own public morgue?

The morgue in Spanish Town is too small. Some relatives have to be sitting on stones outside. Workers in their bloody gowns are mixing with everyone, which is not healthy. Bloody bodies are also mixing up with clean ones. I know this because when my mother was taken to Madden's she was clean and in her nighty and on the date of post-mortem examination she was all bloody and the doctors had not cut her yet.

The Ministry of Health must take a serious look into this, so too, the Opposition and the justice groups. Undertakers must treat the bodies better and stop putting them on top of each other.

The funeral industry is making too much money for such poor service to be provided, and also shame on the government for providing such a service.

I am, etc.,

MAXINE JOHNSON

10A Sunrise Drive

Kingston 8

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