COVID-19 DEATH SCARE AT GOOD SHEPHERD

  SITEKI – A corpse wrapped in a plastic bag, tagged as a Covid-19 suspect caused quite a stir at Good Shepherd Hospital.
Relatives to the deceased felt unsafe to take her body to a nearby morgue.

Dieners at Crucifix also felt uncomfortable as well to ferry the body of Zodwa Matsenjwa, who died under mysterious circumstances on April 20, 2020 at Good Shepherd Hospital.

She is yet to be buried.
However, the dieners finally took her body to the morgue after her coronavirus results tested negative.
Initially, Zodwa (44) was thought to be a potential suspect because she worked in South Africa and returned to the country in the aftermath of the lockdown effected in that country by the government of Cyril Ramaphosa.

Since her death is not related to Covid-19, what, therefore, led to the sudden demise of Zodwa?
Her brother, S’gidzi, is not pleased at all. Her sister, he said, felt sick at a certain homestead and was ferried to the hospital.
She was taken to hospital by someone whose name is being withheld for legal reasons. Relatives are of the view that this person who took Zodwa to hospital should have reported her sickness to them.

 He said his sister’s three gold rings were nowhere to be seen, and the clothes she wore when she went to the hospital disappeared without any trace.
“The man who took my sister to the hospital claimed to have not seen the three gold rings and the clothes she wore when she was admitted at the hospital,” he said.

“The hospital staffers have no idea about the whereabouts of the clothes and the rings. It’s just a mystery.”
S’gidzi said they tried to convey his sister’s body to the Mbabane branch of Crucifix as they wanted her to be buried at her marital home in Siphocosini, where her husband was also buried.

Cops investigating death

However, he mentioned that police stopped the movement of the deceased’s body to Mbabane as they wanted to investigate circumstances leading to her death.
He disclosed that a letter had since been discovered by her sister’s children at Siphocosini in which she accused a certain man of having taken her late husband’s property, which included a car.

In the said letter, S’gidzi narrated that Zodwa expressed displeasure with the treatment she received from this man.
Another relative to Zodwa, who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity, said his sister had bubbles in her mouth. He was of the opinion that a post-mortem would reveal the truth.

Chief Police Information and Communication Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed that police were investigating the case. She said police felt the death of the woman raised more questions than answers.

Officials at Good Shepherd Hospital said they would not talk about the matter because police had taken it up for investigation.
An officer at Crucifix in Siteki said they feared to take Zodwa to the morgue after seeing her body tagged “Covid-19 suspect.”

He said their superiors eventually advised them to take it to the facility.
He said they wore gloves and masks when they took the corpse to the mortuary.

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