The nightmare of living in a place with a poor road network has forced people sandwiched between Mayani in Dedza and Salima to construct a make-shift ‘mortuary’ at the foot of Nam’gogoda hills where dead bodies are kept awaiting repatriation to villages for burial.
According to reports from villagers and traditional leaders say that due to the state of the road, bodies have to be kept in the unrefrigerated earth house as ‘shelter, before they are taken on stretchers further uphill for burial.
Madeya, a Catholic Priest for Chiphwanya Parish located in Dedza North Constituency has stressed on the need for a paved road between Nkhoma-Mayani to help serve the’ abandoned’ people in that area.
From up the hills of this area, Salima is 25 kilometres away while the public hospital in Dedza is an estimated 45 kilometres away.
