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For two years, his body lay in the Gokwe District Hospital mortuary in north-west Zimbabwe.
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The figures are based on hospital and mortuary records and are seen as significant given the heated and highly politicised debate over the human cost of the war in Iraq, our correspondent says.
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At Beatrice hospital in Harare, bodies were piled in the mortuary, awaiting relatives to collect them.
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An investigation by the hospital found the hospital had done the same thing in the past when the mortuary was full.
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Peter Houghton, NHS Executive regional director of the Eastern region, said an investigation into the incident found the hospital had no policies in place for what should happen if the mortuary was full.
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The bodies were left in the carpeted, unrefrigerated room at the hospital for up to 24 hours at a time, after a mortuary was closed when problems with the doors led to a porter injuring himself.
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On Thursday, some of the slain bodies were taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, but medical staff say angry scenes broke out when the police were told the mortuary was unable to accommodate all of the corpses.
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