Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku does about-turn, will no longer sue eNCA reporter over crowded maternity ward visuals
Masuku claims that the video clip played during a news bulletin on the free-to-air channel on Wednesday, was an off the record conversation which Tshona should not have used.
Tshona has since taken to social media to clear her name: “Just to set the record straight, I explained to the MEC that I will be recording from the time he viewed the footage, so that I could get his reaction to them and get visuals of him watching.Just to set the record straight, I explained to the MEC that I will be recording from the time he views the footage, so that I could get his reaction to them and get visuals of him watching.
Masuku said the women seen in the video were not patients but mothers who were stuck at the hospital because of limited public transport during the national lockdown.“These individuals ordinarily do not have to sleep in a hospital, they have been discharged. They come in the morning to breastfeed, particularly those babies who are in the intensive care unit – then they leave.”
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