NEHAWU DEATH STRIKE: Dystopian scenes at Bloemfontein’s Pelonomi Hospital wage strike shuts down medical care

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Patients helping themselves to morphine, dead bodies in the corridors, premature babies going hungry and no food or water for older patients — that’s the reality in Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein on day two of a strike by nursing staff.

An eerie atmosphere hung over Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, the second day of a Nehawu wage strike, with hospital rooms having been hastily abandoned, leaving corridors and beds empty and patients limping around in pain.

With virtually no nurses working, some patients weren’t given their pain medication. Some went as far as helping themselves to medication from unlocked medicine cabinets. Walking down the corridors, it was impossible to distinguish health workers from civilians and patients. Most doctorsPatients in distress

A man, alone in one of the hospital rooms, stares through the window at Nehawu members singing outside the entrance to the Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein. Vermaak nodded towards another elderly woman on the bed beside her. She has cancer and was in hospital to drain an abscess in her breast.

 

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This is the legacy of the MYANC you where only the tool CyrilRamaphosa the worker, the problem for you is, you had a choice

Hospitals are too important to be left to the ANC to manage, hell wait, the Country is too important to be left to the ANC to manage.

Where's humanity 😔💔

crimemind3 Bring in our highly vaunted swat team, should all be over by lunch time

MYANC CyrilRamaphosa why so quiet on this? I know u are very busy planning ur election campaign behind ur fortified luxury compound walls where life is beautiful, but maybe look to the sky and see the smoke rising. The country is buring around u, but ok, I know u don't care.

crimemind3 Dis wat Ramaphas wil hé met nuwe mediese plan.Als opfok soos Esjkom

That is disgusting. I thought emergency services were not allowed to strike?

These people should be fired. They take an oath to do no harm. That oath has been broken. They need to be black listed as well.

DrVladimirMD Time to thin the herd ...

Is this really happening has our country lost its morality ? its becime a zombie republic

By the way aren't medical staff not allowed to strike anyway due to the nature of their work?!

I've never ever in my life come across anything this horrendous 😫 Have we lost ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 😭😭

LaureenBertin This, of course, is not a disaster for the Minister of Health, so he can keep eating his share. The ANCs and trade unions attitude is bugger the poor let's torture them and see which of us blink first.

striking nurses and medical staff should be a criminal offense and they should be disqualified from future promotions and go on courses how to behave = no decent nurse would do this = this is not just a job but a profession and you do that no matter what= these nurses =disgusting

They should be fired!disgusting.

Voters must think long and hard about voting for a government that has created such an environment and tolerates such behaviour. The total breakdown of SA fabric allows for this and the MYANC just sits infights. But if you think this is bad, imagine under EFFSouthAfrica FUCK!

Physkosyd ANC ✊🏽

Reading this story is like reading a horror book. This is babarian.

That is what you know. You never report about the horrible conditions healthcare workers work under everyday but you are quick to write rubbish when they undertake industrial action.

Murder. They are murdering people. No law enforcement. Right to strike, right to murder innocent people? This so called world renowned constitution is just a scam to protect murderers and thieves

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