Life Esidimeni inquest: A recap on progress and what to expect
The judicial inquest into the deaths of mental healthcare patients in the Life Esidimeni tragedy of 2016 began this year on July 19. After several false starts and procedural delays, with another six-week postponement announced this week, only four witnesses have testified before Judge Mmonoa Teffo in the Johannesburg High Court.
Sadag and the SA Society of Psychiatrists wrote more than 12 letters asking for an audience with the department and warning it of the risks. Section27’s legal representative Advocate Adila Hassim cross-examined Mkhatshwa and it emerged that the hospital group was told to reduce the number of beds at Esidimeni in 2015, but the Gauteng health department was dissatisfied with the pace.
The hospital representatives said they provided people who were transferred from Life Esidimeni with medication for 28 days and if they were transferred to a hospital then they received seven days’ worth of medication. She said the first and second groups of mental healthcare patients were transferred following proper and normal procedures, but with groups that followed there was a deviation from procedure and the process was rushed and haphazard.On last day of operations, Life Esidimeni centre had to scramble to get accommodation for patients
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