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The Zambian government has given coffin sellers until March to move their properties from a health facility in the country’s capital, Lusaka, else they would be relocated to a graveyard.
Before now, the traders had been conducting business outside the University Teaching Hospital where they opened shops outside close to the mortuary.
Lusaka Mayor, Miles Sampa, while expressing dissatisfaction over the presence of the coffin sellers in the health facility, said the coffin sellers would be relocated to the graveyards if they failed to move.
Patients and their relatives are reported to have complained to the local authorities, prompting the ultimatum.
Mayor Sampa was quoted by the media as saying the coffin sellers were depressing patients, making it hard for them to recover.
He advised that they had found an alternative location for their shops or be relocated to graveyards.
