Swift Action: Post mortems on five bodies at the hospital morgue have been completed

2026-02-09 - 20:28

The Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt confirmed during his media conference that two forensic pathologists from New Zealand had travelled to Samoa and conducted post mortems on the five bodies that were at the Motootua Hospital morgue last week. The move to expedite investigations into unexplained deaths is just another example of the current Prime Minister’s “hit the ground running” approach to leading Samoa since taking over Samoa’s government less than 5 months ago. “Ua uma ona taunu’u mai tagata foma’i faapitoa, pathologists, ma faatino taotoga faapitoa mo tino maliliu e lima sa i le falemaliu.”