The Department of Health in the North West has issued an apology to a family after a mix-up led to the wrong family being informed of a loved one's death.
Seventy-two-year-old Dorothy Magape, a resident from Delareyville, had been taken to the Gelukspan Hospital for treatment. When a relative went to visit her, she was informed that the elderly woman had passed away.
According to reports, the relative, Nsomanga Skosana, was too traumatised to view the body at the time.
Skosana duly informed her family and others of Magape's death.
Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, the family said they had started to make funeral arrangements and that neighbours had come to sympathise while relatives living further away and begun making travel plans to attend the funeral.
