Prognosis
No Food for 100 Hours: The State of South Africa Health Care
- Man dies after tweeting health minister about his care
- Ombudsman accuses Johannesburg hospital of gross negligence
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The death of a 34-year-old man with Covid-19 who wasn’t fed for 100 hours or attended to by a doctor for almost three days has shown the dire state of some of South Africa’s public hospitals.
Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital near Johannesburg was accused of gross negligence by the country’s health ombudsman after an investigation.