A 19-year-old woman who delivered a “decapitated” baby is planning to sue the Gauteng health department. According to eNCA, the woman had suffered with abdominal pain for a few weeks before she went into labour. The woman, who has not been named, spoke to eNCA. She then went to a general practitioner, who found that..
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Woman to sue Gauteng health department after giving birth to ‘decapitated’ baby in state hospital
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Ill baby denied healthcare at state hospitals, as a result of very arrogant medical employees the infant died – death could have been prevented if medical team chose to do their job properly
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A Pietermaritzburg woman’s impassioned plea for nurses at two city hospitals to help her very ill infant fell on deaf ears and hours later the five-month-old baby died. After his mother was turned away from two state hospitals — Grey’s and Northdale — baby Brody Lee Bezuidenhout could not hold on any longer and died…
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Nurses allegedly ‘ignored’ pleas for help as mom cradled dead infant after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses pay no attention to her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital
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The Western Government Health Department will be investigating a young mother’s claims that she nearly bled to death after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses ignored her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital. The woman says she lay for seven hours in a heap of blood clots “the size of her fists”, while the..
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Deceased child’s body missing – Grieving family wants answers
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There still have not been any developments in the case of the baby’s body which went missing from the Pinetown mortuary.
The Daily News had on the plight of a distraught couple whose 7-month-old boy Sikhosana Mosemene had died suddenly on March 26 at a local informal day-care centre and whose body went missing from the mortuary.
The provincial Department of Health’s response yesterday has been disputed by frustrated father Seboda Mosemene.
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Horror stories of births at Yusuf Dadoo – Mother had to pull baby out by herself
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A woman was allegedly forced to give birth unassisted at Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital.
A few days after it was reported on the death of a newborn baby whose mother had to give birth to him without any assistance from nurses or hospital staff at Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital, another mother has come forward, claiming she had to give birth in similar circumstances, Krugersdorp News reports.
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Mom gives birth without doctor’s assistance – sits with dead baby between her legs for 10 minutes
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“The nurse said if I want to deliver my baby I must just do it myself otherwise I must keep it in – they are busy with other patients.”
A broken mother cried with unbearable sadness as she told the News how she gave birth to a baby in a state hospital, claiming that she had no assistance from nurses or doctors whatsoever.
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