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Concerns over moving psychiatric patients from Life Esidimeni to ill equipped NGOs were ignored, former health official tells inquest

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A former official told the inquest he only became involved in the ill-fated transfer of psychiatric patients from Life Esidimeni to ill-equipped NGOs once deaths were being reported. Esidimeni mentalhealthmatters

The inquest is attempting to probe who should be held liable for the deaths.He added that he hardly attended meetings linked to the project as he had other duties to attend to.He explained his visit was to an NGO, Precious Angels, in Pretoria which had housed psychiatric patients.

The facility, according to him, had been badly run and patients were found too frail and not taken care of.A decision was then taken to quickly move patients from Precious Angels to state-run hospitals.The concerns included that some mental care users were not ready to be transferred to hospitals and that some NGOs were unprepared to accommodate patients.

The inquest also heard that family members of the patients were unhappy with the move but they were convinced by officials that it would work.Advocate Harry van Bergen, representing Life Esidimeni, asked Lebethe whether he agreed that psychiatric patients were better looked after at Life Esidimeni because of the staff and round the clock medical care.

Former Life Esidimeni Group managing director Morgan Mkhatshwa testified last week that the group had requested to inspect NGOs prior to the move. But those pleas were also allegedly ignored by the department of health in Gauteng.

 

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