The long-awaited inquest into circumstances surrounding the death of Thembela Matiwane at Mowbray Maternity Hospital finally took place last December, with Magistrate Ingrid Freitag clearing MMH staff of  culpability. 

Sadly, noseweek has a last word – not least in response to Dr David Bass’s crowing that the conduct of MMH staff was found to be “faultless”. And the word is: the inquest did not address the issues repeatedly raised in these pages – inter alia that no postmortem was held, and that this fact has been covered up by MMH.

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