Doctors butchered my daughter – dead teen mom’s father
The Malaza family are still in shock and traumatised over the mysterious death of Sesi Joana Malaza, who died following a caesarean operation.
Malaza and her baby’s deaths led to the suspension of the two doctors who operated on her. According to the family, the 19-year-old was in labour when she was admitted to the Evander Hospital, near Secunda, in Mpumalanga on July 6, Ridge Times reported.
Family members were informed the baby had died and that Malaza was flown with a helicopter to a private hospital in eMalahleni.
“It did not make sense that she was taken to a private hospital because I do not have a medical aid,” said Mike Malaza, her father.
“I was told she was critically ill and in ICU. However, I did not pay attention to it because I was arranging the funeral of the baby,” Malaza said.
He said he later visited Sesi but was told by staff at the private hospital to enquire from Evander Hospital.
“I called the hospital, but did not get answers,” Malaza said. He then received a call from the private hospital informing him that his daughter had died.
He arranged for undertakers to bring her body home. However, when he and the undertakers arrived at the hospital, she was alive.
“I realised something was seriously wrong, and the hospital staff denied ever calling me, and on our way home, I received another call that my daughter had died. This time she was really dead.”
Malaza went to the Evander Hospital to fetch his daughter’s clothes, which he said were covered in blood.
“Clots of blood and what looked like human fat fell from the clothes. My wife and family prepared my daughter’s bloodied body for the funeral,” he said.
On Monday, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi visited the family to extend his condolences and to give them the outcome of the investigation.
Motsoaledi said the doctors allegedly disregarded protocols and clinical guidelines during the examination of Malaza at the hospital.
“The manner in which the operation was done on this young girl outside theatre was never done before. I have never seen that in my experience of 32 years in the profession, and the reason for doing it in a ward is against medical practice and ethics,” he said.
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– Caxton News Service
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