The family of a young man whose dead body was at the Malietoa Tanumafili II hospital mortuary in Savaii was forced to bury their son early after a refrigeration malfunction caused his body to decompose.
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The family of a young man whose dead body was at the Malietoa Tanumafili II hospital mortuary in Savaii was forced to bury their son early after a refrigeration malfunction caused his body to decompose.
A source at the hospital confirmed to KHJ News that the problem was not discovered until Sunday evening.
That source also said a second body, that of a woman, was transferred to the only private mortuary on Savaii.
