“Dr Munshi’s loss continues to be felt and will be for years to come.”
Four medical organisations representing general practitioners and specialists in SA have urged police not to rest until Dr Abdulhay Munshi’s killers are brought to book.
Dr Munshi was gunned down in an apparent hit on September 16 2020 in Orange Grove. No arrests have been made in connection with his murder.
Dr Munshi was one of two prominent doctors who found themselves in a medical storm after they were blamed for the death of a 10-year-old patient after surgery. Zayyaan Sayed died at Netcare’s Park Lane Clinic in October 2019 hours after Prof Peter Beale performed what was meant to be a routine laparoscopic operation to stop reflux.
Beale’s case has been transferred to the high court in Johannesburg on charges of murder and fraud, the date is set for the 4th of October 2021.
The Federation of SA Surgeons (Fosas), the SA Medical Association (Sama), the SA Private Practitioners’ Forum (SAPPF) and the SA Society of Anaesthesiologists (Sasa) said the health-care sector "supports and appeals to the police to continue the hunt for Dr Munshi’s killers and to not rest until justice has run its full course”.
“Dr Munshi’s loss continues to be felt and will be for years to come. His unsolved murder continues to threaten the stability of our health sector human resources.
“The health sector appeals to the police to keep it informed on the investigation.”
At the time of the shooting, witnesses told TimesLIVE the anaesthetist was gunned down by a motorist who rear-ended Munshi’s vehicle and then opened fire multiple times.
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Cellphone of murdered anaesthetist was being tracked
NOVEMBER 4TH, 2020 SOUTH AFRICA
The geographical position of the cellphone carried murdered Johannesburg anaesthetist Dr Abdulhay Munshi was being constantly tracked by the man now accused of the hit on the section commander of the Anti-Gang Unit in Cape Town.
An investigation by Maverick Citizen has revealed that murder accused Zane Kilian allegedly used a platform (app) controlled by a former Gauteng police officer to carry out pings that indicated the nearest tower to the cellphone of murdered Johannesburg anaesthetist Dr Abdulhay Munshi, as well as the murdered Anti-Gang Unit section commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
Pinging a device means sending it a message or signal via cellphone signal towers. This signal is then returned with the device’s exact location information. It also assists in finding out the device’s last active location. The pinging technology works with a device’s GPS location systems installed and activated in it. The GPS location systems work in collaboration with tracking software and other tools to help locate the device’s position with accuracy.
According to a report on the Daily Maverick site, Kilian is one of several individuals and corrupt police officers who used the platform to intercept the phones of prominent people, including those of Kinnear and lawyer William Booth. The report says police have established that the Munshi's cellphone was allegedly pinged 635 times by the ex-policeman.
In September 2020 Munshi was shot six times in an apparent hit in Orange Grove, Johannesburg. His attackers rammed into the rear of his car and shot him six times in the back of the head. Munshi was the co-accused in a culpable homicide case with Dr Peter Beale. The pair were blamed for the death of Zayyaan Sayed, 10, following surgery at the Netcare Park Lane Hospital in October last year.