Last week, Review reported on a biker who was admitted to the Pietersburg Provincial Hospital.
His wife had to care for him in hospital, while the nurses refused to assist him to the point of not providing food for him (and other patients).
Those nurses probably got paid with your and my tax money as they reported for “duty”, yet they cruelly left patients to suffer, refusing to assist.
The man’s wife cannot go to work, as she was given the choice to either be fired or to resign. There is just nobody else to care or treat the horrendous wounds her husband sustained in the accident. He also lost his job as he could not inform his employer of a specific date on which he will be operated on or how long he has to spend in hospital.
At first, the wife was allowed to come at six in the mornings to clean and treat her husband’s wounds, but she was later refused entry into the hospital “because it was not visiting hours”.
Our journalist was there and witnessed the maltreatment and lack of caring from the nurse in ward O.
Batho pele? You must be joking. Those who are supposed to be carergivers… well, they just don’t care.
Even animals would lick the wounds of other injured animals, but these people just ignore the patients. The Florence Nightingales of today. Their lack of humanity is astonishing.
Yes, they have not yet received their bonuses, but why follow the uncaring attitude of the senior management and punish innocent people, patients, who have no part in this?
I want to know what is going to be done to this nurse and others like her. Will steps be taken? The managers who neglected to have workers’ bonuses paid out will have to carry the consequences.
The MEC’s response to this blatant abuse would be interesting to watch.
Julius Malema was right in saying public officials should be forced to use public facilities.
It is perhaps the only thing that will speed up service delivery.
