FAILURE TO COMPLY
Psychiatric patients remain in hospices despite deadline
The Gauteng health department fails to comply with an ombud’s instructions to move psychiatric patients to safer facilities
03 May 2017 - 05:11
About 100 psychiatric patients are still trapped in hospices unequipped to care for mentally ill patients after the Gauteng department of health had failed to comply with health ombudsman Malegapuru Makgoba’s instructions following the deaths of more than 100 patients. After the deaths in the unlicensed facilities due to a lack of adequate care, Makgoba investigated the circumstances in which more than 1,000 psychiatric patients had been placed into the care of NGOs.
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