WATCH | Patient lying in filth at Thembisa Hospital prompts visit by Gauteng health MEC

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Gauteng health and wellness MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko visited Thembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital on Friday after a video showed a mental patient lying in filth at the facility.

The video clip shows a patient tossing and turning on the floor between hospital beds, with trash strewn all over the place. One person feeds a patient on a bed at the far end of the room. The person who shot the video gives a running commentary on the situation.“Guys I am here in Thembisa Hospital right now as we speak. Look how our human beings are being stored. I may call it stored because you may not stay or sleep in such a place. I have brought my boy.

The video prompted Nkomo-Ralehoko to visit the hospital. She said the patients were in a “passage” waiting to be examined by doctors to determine if they should be admitted or treated as outpatients. “While they were still in that process, one of the family members of the patients came in and then took a video of where some of those patients were, which is a waiting area where they were waiting to be taken to the doctor.”“In my presence, we had to look into the wards, bring in some other team from the other doctors who can assist us and physicians who can quickly check what is the situation,” she said.“There is one female out of those 17.

 

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Like Cele visiting the family of those killed on the streets, keep it up hey🤡

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