Mozambique: 24 still-born babies dumped at waste site

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Mozambican authorities have blamed ‘human error’ after 24-still-born babies from a hospital in Matola were dumped at a waste site, AIM news agency reported. The mayor of the city of Matola said the remains of babies born at Maputo Provincial Hospital were mistaken for refuse by an employee and transported to a dumping site outside the city.
The hospital mortuary administrator Carolina Macuacua told the news agency, “What happened was that a colleague put the bodies of the stillbirths in the vehicle carrying ordinary hospital waste”.
The mayor, Calisto Cossa has since issued an apology for the negligence and said, “We know this was a human error, and for that reason, we present our apology not only to the citizens of Matola, but also to the Mozambican society”.
The UN children's agency Unicef lists Mozambique as among the sub-Saharan countries with a high stillbirth rate.

Source News24