Services disrupted at Westbury Clinic as residents protest against postmortem report

JOHANNESBURG - Services were disrupted at Westbury Clinic on Wednesday amid a protest over a report into the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby at the facility. 

The Health Department gave Mirriam Singh's loved ones a postmortem report into her death, which the family has rejected.

Residents protested outside the Westbury Clinic, questioning the validity of the report. 

The community of Westbury demonstrated peacefully outside the clinic, however, patients could only be seen leaving the clinic, while those wanting to come in were stopped.

READ: Westbury Clinic saga: Mirriam Singh’s family questions validity of her postmortem report

Forty-seven-year-old Anthony Karlie was one of the patients who was denied entry.

He said that the consequences of not taking his medication were severe. 

"If I didn’t have it then it’s going to be a problem cause I’m going to get more sick because schizophrenia is another sickness if you don’t take your medication then you hallucinate, you see stuff and you can even kill the next person or yourself."

Meanwhile, the Health Department has refused to comment on the case.