50-day-old body a 'health risk'
2004-08-19 12:05
Cape Town - The body of Paul Meintjies, dead for 50 days, may pose a health threat, SABC reported on Thursday.
The undertaker, Nico Foulds, refused to keep the body in his mortuary any longer, on Wednesday delivered in a borrowed coffin to the house of Meintjies's widow.
Tefo Kamolana, a health inspector at Boshoff in the Free State is to visit the nearby town of Hertzogville on Friday to determine if the body holds a health risk.
He said he would talk to the town manager on Thursday to arrange a visit to the house of the Meintjies's widow, where the body is now being kept in a borrowed coffin in the widow's bedroom.
Foulds said he supplied gloves to the family should they want to handle the corpse.
- News24