Zacharius Johannes de Lange sustained a spinal cord injury while playing a rugby league game in September 2015.
The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that Gauteng’s current health MEC, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa is to pay for all damages as a result of local rugby league player Zacharius Johannes de Lange’s death at the Steve Biko Hospital.
Following De Lange’s admission at the Steve Biko Hospital, he was diagnosed as an incomplete quadriplegic. This condition occurs when there is damage to the cervical spinal cord. “But De Lange developed significant respiratory dysfunction and eventually passed away on 21 September 2015, from cardiac arrest, despite attempts to resuscitate him.”
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