Phoenix residents in shock after woman, Constantia Junior Governder, woke up from a cold mortuary freezer after being declared dead by doctors at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Durban

In a shocking incident, a resident of Phoenix, Constantia Junior Governder, woke up from a cold mortuary freezer after being declared dead by doctors at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Durban. (Read More Here).

In an interview with the Phoenix Tabloid, 52-year-old Constantia Junior Govender alleged that she blacked out while walking to a friend’s home.

She said she woke up at the Phoenix mortuary “feeling cold and covered with a sheet from a corpse bed”.

I pulled the sheet from over my head and when I pulled it further down, I realised that I had no clothes on.”

The woman said she was deeply disturbed at the sight and when she saw that there was a body bag from where she lay and next to that another dead person who was covered with a sheet.

She was reportedly told that when she had arrived at the same hospital earlier, she had no pulse and was administered oxygen but “flatlined” three times. She was further informed that after 45 minutes, staff called for the mortuary van.

She said she woke up at the Phoenix mortuary “feeling cold and covered with a sheet from a corpse bed”.

She alleged that she panicked when she saw another body nearby.

She said she did not know how she arrived at the hospital or what happened to her. She only remembered waking up at the morgue.

The 52-year-old woman told Phoenix Tabloid that she didn’t remember how she ended up at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital.

Govender said she was on her way to a friend’s house when she blacked out on the road and woke up at the Phoenix mortuary “feeling cold, naked and covered with a sheet from a corpse bed”.

Speaking to IOL, KwaZulu-Natal Health spokesperson, Ntokozo Maphisa said official records revealed that no such body was ever fetched from anywhere in Phoenix in April, or at any other time that month.

Maphisa said there was also no body that went missing after admission at any time from the Phoenix Medico-Legal Mortuary.

“During April 2023, there were a total of eight Indian females that were admitted. Seven of them were identified and released to families. Of the eight bodies, seven were of adults, and one was of an 8-month-old baby. The body that has not been identified yet is still at the mortuary, awaiting identification,” he said.