The family of a man who allegedly lay in bed in his own faeces, with an open wound infested with flies, has accused Frere Hospital of negligence and poor service. Reginald Durandt, 52, from Amalinda, was admitted to the hospital on April 9 for surgery on a twisted bowel. His brother, Henry Durandt, said Reginald’s..
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Patient’s nightmare after operation at EL hospital – man lay in faeces, infested with flies
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Amputated limbs and dead babies regularly found at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital’s laundry
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A woman who works in the laundry section of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg says she frequently deals with an array of horror finds among the linen – from amputated limbs to babies; dead and alive. “I have been working here for several years and we are never sure what we will find when we..
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Verslag oor swak diens in staatshospitale saamgestel om verantwoordbaarheid in die gesondheidsektor te verhoog
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AfriForum het die publiek genooi om hul ervarings van treurige dienslewering en behandeling by hospitale en klinieke met dié organisasie te deel in ʼn poging om die swak plekke in die Suid-Afrikaanse gesondheidstelsel bloot te lê. Dr. Eugene Brink, strategiese raadgewer vir gemeenskapsake by AfriForum, sê die organisasie word toenemend met klagtes van swak behandeling..
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Woman to sue Gauteng health department after giving birth to ‘decapitated’ baby in state hospital
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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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No more water at Gauteng state hospital – operations canceled and patients diverted
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The Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston has had to cancel operations and divert patients because of a failure of water supply from the City of Ekurhuleni municipality, the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng said on Sunday. “I visited the hospital last week on Friday after receiving reports that the hospital ran out of water the day..
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The ANC Has Finally Pushed South Africans Too Far – South African citizens are #gatvol of this corrupt & deceitful, and uncaring and incompetent ANC Government
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South Africans are treated like animals at Tlhabane Community Health Center (CHC) in Rustenburg. This facility was officially opened by Health MEC, Dr. Magome Masike on in 2014, to address the main challenge of access to health care. The disgusting and dangerous conditions in state run hospitals show a wilful negligence by the Department of..
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‘Terminally ill children left to die in pain in SA government hospitals’ – ANC-regime has not yet implemented its policy on palliative care, affecting paediatric patients with terminal illnesses.
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This is the assertion of paediatrician Dr Michelle Meiring, who said while the policy had been approved, there has been no budget to implement it. “These kids are suffering in pain today. We need to do something more urgently,” she said. Meiring is a senior lecturer in palliative medicine at the University of Cape Town,..
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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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Pasiënte se regte word benadeel by Bophelong hospitaal a.g.v. infrastruktuur uitdagings – nie-nakoming van aanvaarbare standaarde en norme kan lei tot die uitbreek van siektes omdat infeksiebeheer nie behoorlik toegepas word
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Verstopte dreine, lekkende dakke, stukkende lugversorging en te min matrasse – Dis maar van die uitdagings by die Bophelong psigiatriese hospitaal naby Mahikeng wat in 2016 oopgemaak het en waaraan sowat R450 miljoen reeds bestee is. Dr. Job Mokgoro, Noordwes se premier, was ná ’n besoek verlede Woensdag aan die hospitaal “geskok” oor die omstandighede daar,..
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Hospitaal se hele bestuurspan in die pad gesteek in Limpopo – ‘n Mens kan hier doodgaan terwyl jy wag dat ’n dokter of verpleegster jou spreek
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Skokkende wanbestuur by die Tshilidzini-hospitaal in Limpopo het daartoe gelei dat dr. Phophi Ramathuba, LUR vir gesondheid in Limpopo, dié hospitaal se hele bestuurspan in die pad gesteek het. Die hospitaal in die Vhembe-gebied bedien ’n groot gemeenskap. Probleme by die hospitaal sluit in vervalle geboue, swak diens, lang toue mense wat ure lank wag..
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