Mental patients have nowhere to go, despite department of health saying it would move them
The owner of the Masego Home for the elderly‚ which is still housing three mentally ill patients moved from the care of Life Esidimeni‚ said on Tuesday that the patients had nowhere else to go, despite the Gauteng department of health’s declaration that it would move them."Since they were admitted to Life Esidimeni, 20 or 30 years back‚ these patients’ relatives were never there. I was once a matron at Life Esidimeni and they are very good at tracing the users’ families. It is on record that they were transferred to us as patients and it is stated that no family members or relatives were found and it was also difficult for us to find people who were never there for these patients‚" said Maletsatsi Mokgojoa.She was speaking on PowerFM radio on Tuesday afternoon.The three were found at her facility by Randfontein police officers after the DA’s Jack Bloom opened a missing person’s case to find them. They were part of a group of 62 former Life Esidimeni patients who could not be traced ...
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