JUST IN: Missing mentally challenged Hansie found after Express article
According to De Lange staff at the hospital said Hansie was brought in by an ambulance.
After having been missing for nearly seven days, mentally challenged Hansie Vorster (56) was found in the psychiatric ward at Tembisa Hospital on Friday afternoon.
He was unharmed.
Relative Simoné Vorster told Express: “The staff at the hospital said they took him in because he was talking to himself and they didn’t want to leave him on the street.”
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Marietha de Lange called Kempton Express on Friday afternoon telling us she had seen him at the hospital on Wednesday.
“Everyone waiting in the medicine room tried their best to help him find his loved ones,” said De Lange. Any information he gave, we tried to look up. Even Facebook was explored. Unfortunately we were not successful.”
Express only published an article about him being missing on Thursday.
According to De Lange staff at the hospital said Hansie was brought in by an ambulance.
“From there on, the only information he could give was his name and that he was from Rustenburg. It wasn’t until this afternoon [Friday} that my father saw the article on Facebook and I decided to call the newspaper.”
Simoné said he had been living with them in Kempton for a while.
“I would like to thank the kind woman who helped us find him after she saw him at the hospital. We’d also love to thank the staff at Tembisa Hospital who kept him safe.
“We are so grateful that he’s back safely,” said Simoné.
