Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer is to meet with President of the Jamaica Workers' Union, Clifton Brown, following a directive to suspend the operations of the Mandeville Regional Hospital's morgue following the recent disappearance of a baby's body.

The meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Monday at the ministry's head office on King Street in Kingston.

Letters of suspension were sent to the staff last Wednesday after the minister received a report into the disappearance of the body of a new-born from the facility. It was discovered that the body, one of a twin, could not be found when the parents turned up to collect it in February.

second such incident

This is the second such incident at the hospital. The Mandeville Regional Hospital was at the centre of the 2002 'Baby Pansy' saga.

In that incident, Pansy Campbell challenged the hospital after she was presented with a body that the administrators claimed was that of her child who had died shortly after birth. Campbell denied that it was her child.

Close to a year later, and after widespread media coverage, DNA tests confirmed the body was not that of 'Baby Pansy'. It has never been determined what happened to the body of the child.