The construction of a modern forensic pathology facility in Western Cape, South Africa has commenced. It will substitute the Forensic Pathology Services Laboratory, in Salt River, and is projected to be completed in mid-2019.
The larger, purpose-built facility will be located at the Groote Schuur Hospital, in the Western Cape and is set to cost a whopping US$ 23m.
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The project, headed by the Department of Transport and Public Works will include 26 autopsy tables, four dissection suites with six tables each, as well as two teaching and training dissection suites. Additionally, there will be 360 refrigerated body spaces 180 admission fridges and 180 dispatch fridges.
The Observatory Forensic Pathology Institute
Once complete, the Observatory Forensic Pathology Institute will make available Level 4 forensic services intended to extract, analyze and preserve the integrity of evidence for use by the criminal justice system.
According to a statement by the Western Cape government, the 23-month project is a partnership between the Western Cape government health (WCGH) department and the transport and public works department.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Groote Schuur Hospital is a large, government-funded, teaching hospital famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christian Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
