Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says doctors have good reasons for the medical decisions they take.
Health Minister Doctor Aaron Motsoaledi has defended doctors who attended to a Boksburg mother whose baby's head was severed from its body during birth. CourtesyJOHANNESBURG - Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has defended doctors who attended to a Boksburg mother whose baby's head was severed from its body during birth.
Questions were asked about why doctors didn't perform a C-section after deciding the child, who had severe abnormalities, was unlikely to survive.
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