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
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