back was still painful from the beating on the date that the Commission interviewed him. HOSPITALS IN HARARE 5.9. Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals: Public Relations Officer and Parirenyatwa Police Post 5.9.1. The ZHRC engaged the head of mortuary department at Parirenyatwa hospital where post mortem reports of all the deceased were said to have been compiled. She indicated that the hospital Public Relations Officer (PRO) was better placed to speak on behalf of the mortuary department. The PRO highlighted that he was not able to give an update of those who had been examined by the pathologist and whose post mortem reports had been compiled. He indicated that all those who had been brought in dead were only coming for pathology services as they had been placed in different mortuaries. None of them were placed at Parirenyatwa mortuary. Their respective mortuaries, the Ministry of Health and Child Care and its Permanent Secretary were the ones better placed to provide such information. The Officer in Charge at the Police Post was not forthcoming with information, he instead referred the ZHRC to PGHQ to get further and better particulars on the post mortem reports 5.10. Harare Hospital 5.10.1. On Monday 21 January the Commission visited Harare Central Hospital on a fact-finding mission to find out if they had received any cases of people injured during and post the stay away protest. Further, the ZHRC sought to find out if the people had received any care, how the hospital had been affected and if they had recorded any deaths Page 33 of 68