Gauteng health and wellness MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko visited Thembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital on Friday after a video showed a mental patient lying in filth at the facility.
Gauteng health and wellness MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko visited Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital on Friday after a video showed a mental patient lying in filth at the facility.
“My brother here is feeding his brother because there is no one. There is no food, there is nothing. Let us try something guys as a community: councillors, mayors, MEC, health department let us come here and see what is going on at Thembisa Hospital.” “When we arrived, indeed, those were psychiatric patients that we received. There were about 17 of them that we admitted. Unfortunately, we didn’t have space for them to go to because they were still waiting for the doctors to come and check them, like psychiatrists and your physicians that must check them, and after those observations we are able to admit them,” said Nkomo-Ralehoko.
“... There are two wards that we have organised now. Even those that are still waiting to be diagnosed by the doctors so that we know whether they will be outpatients or they will be in, just to normalise this environment that was not seen correctly out there.”“They were fighting among each other. They were breaking things when they arrived but the doctors managed to see them. They had to give them a diagnosis and understand what is it that we can do in terms of treating them ...
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