Hazel Vilakazi, whose husband, Paulos Vilakazi, died. Picture: Phill Magakoe

A Soshanguve family is still reeling in shock, anger and frustration after the death of 70-year-old Paulos Vilakazi. He died a few days after being discharged from Kalafong Hospital and being rushed back the following day with a gaping wound and intestines which had fallen out on to his bed.

Doctors at the hospital have refused to explain why the old man was discharged from the hospital with a septic wound, and they dismissed the family when they asked for an explanation, Vilakazi’s brother-in-law, Tony Baloyi, said on Monday.

“When we told them of our decision to get an independent pathologist to conduct a post-mortem they told us to take the corpse from the hospital morgue and fill the death certificate in ourselves,” Baloyi said.

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