MMAPASEKA Makgalwa (30) and her family want the mortuary next to their house to go away.
Mmapaseka from Atteridgeville, Tshwane, told Daily Sun workers were cleaning the mortuary last week and left their rubbish outside in the street and wind blew the rubbish into their yard.
“The rubbish included used gloves, masks, injections and PPE worn at Covid-19 funerals.”
She said the rubbish had been there for two weeks and they were scared to move it.
“We can’t touch those things. We might get infected,” she said.
She said they were scared that their children might play with the rubbish.
Mmapaseka said at times there was a bad smell that came from the building.
“It smells so bad, one can tell there is something rotten in there. The smell is too much, you can’t even eat,” she said.
She said that when there was load shedding, water leaked from the mortuary.
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“I think the fridges are very close to the wall because stinking water leaks through the wall,” she said.
Selina Thembekwayo (79), who lives on the same street, said they had used their hands to clean the rubbish from their yards.
“They can’t just leave their used things here. We will get diseases from them,” she said.
When Daily Sun contacted the funeral parlour, a woman answered and said the matter was handled – but insisted that whatever was outside their yard did not belong to them.
“We sent our guys on Monday, 31 October and they say those things don’t belong to us,” she said.
On Tuesday morning, the rubbish was still on the street.
