Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says he hopes an inquest into the death of over 140 deceased Life Esidimeni mental patients will bring closure to their families.
Motsoaledi was speaking at a healing ceremony at Freedom Park in Pretoria arranged by the Life Esidimeni Families Committee and the Gauteng provincial government.
Motsoaledi says it’s sad that after so many testimonies during the arbitration hearings, everyone is still in the dark about the reasons for moving the patients to NGO’s where they died. He says an inquest or prosecution into the matter may reveal the truth.
“All the reasons that were given about money, even about implementing a national programme which as a national minister does not know about, all the things that were said. So we are still back to square A.”
“We don’t know the truth, perhaps other process of inquests and prosecutions, if the National Congress Authority (NPA) deems it so fit, perhaps it will still reveal something for us,” says Motsoaledi.
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