Where will the ANC’s Health Department get beds from when, not if, Corona virus strikes widely, when Steve Biko Hospital discharges a mentally challenged man with broken, now rotting ankle, without an operation! Even people who need very urgent operations have to wait 3 nights just for a bed! China built an entire hospital in ten day and like other countries did, ANC will have to setup alternative quarantine venues to get space for Corona virus patients when, not if, it becomes widespread.
Martiens Boshoff, a mentally challenged man had to wait for a week in the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, to receive an urgent operation to an ankle which was badly broken and splintered, whilst the wounds became infected and started to rot. Shockingly he was then discharged without an operation being done and had to sleep in a wheelchair the first night!
Boshoff broke his ankle last week in 2 places when he fell. His family took him to a private doct
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