Lack of funding, equipment and skilled personnel blamed for patients being turned away at public hospitals
Durban - Renal patients who depend on public hospitals for treatment say they are being sent home to die.
The sheer volume of patients in need of dialysis and the finite resources of the healthcare system left patients hopeless after being turned away.Former police officer Marlon Pillay lost total kidney function and now depends on dialysis to survive, but Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital told him “there was nothing they could do”.
“I was septic and dying. I was hopeless and filled with dread. What if I never saw my daughters again? All because I could not afford treatment and the government I served had abandoned me?” He said since the programme’s inception, more than a decade ago, more than 500 patients had been treated.
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