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Disabled persons left to fend for themselves due to strike at San Michele’s home for psychiatric and disabled patients

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The management of San Michele’s home for psychiatric and disabled patients in Brakpan on the East Rand are in panic after most of the staff members of the home have started a protected strike action. More than 200 patients are left unattended during.

Marius Bosman, administrator of San Michele, explained on Saturday that about 90 staff members, including caregivers, cooks and cleaners, have down tools due to wages and bonuses dispute since Friday morning.

“Where we usually have a staff corps of about 85 people throughout the day and 15 crews of staff, we currently have only one matron and five volunteers to look after our 203 patients,” Bosman said.

“We are currently experiencing a crisis and should, with the help of the few volunteers, ensure that patients are fed, fed, bathed and taken care of.”

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Hannes Noëth, executive director of Solidarity Helping Hand, sent delegates from this welfare organization to the hostel to urgen
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The maddening state of Gauteng’s psychiatric facilities

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A massive shortages of hospital beds for psychiatric patients in Gauteng is compromising patient care.

Gauteng is short of about 2700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards where there is no security, thus posing a threat both to themselves and others.

This was revealed recently by Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa in a 22-page statement handed to the Gauteng Legislature in response to questions about the state of psychiatric care for hospitalised patients.

By the time a person with a psychiatric illness is hospitalised, their symptoms are usually severe and patients may be suicidal or psychotic.

The World Health Organisation (using prevalence US figures) estimates that up to three percent of a population will have severe psychiatric conditions and need hospitalisation. This excludes figures for people with substance abuse-related disorders and post-traumatic stress – so it is likely to be an under-esti
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Doctors Sound Alarm That SA Mental Healthcare Is Collapsing

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While almost all the previous Life Esidimeni psychiatric patients have been transferred from the NGOs in Gauteng back into hospitals, a group of doctors have warned that the psychiatric structure in South Africa is collapsing.

Reports reveal that in some mental health hospitals there are no psychiatrists, and none of the provinces have organised community-based psychiatric services at present. The South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) said even 150 days after the Health Ombudsman released a report, many hospitals were still facing a shortage of staff with minimal resources.

The president of the SASOP, Professor Bernard Janse van Rensburg, told Health24 that South Africa’s healthcare system is totally fragmented and broken. “Esidimeni was just the tip of the iceberg,” he said. At the beginning of this year, Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba said the death toll of mentally ill patients who were transferred from Life Esidimeni to 27 NGOs w
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Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers

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Hellen Franz Hospital at Blouberg Municipality ka Limpopo must be placed under Administration,how can a Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers..?

We can not allow ANC’s Phophi Ramathuba and her incompetent Managers to continue with killing of our people,this Hospital is now a Mortuary coz even if you go there with scratched finger,you won’t last for two days,you’ll die like a sick Mosquito,many people died here due to negligent of incompetent staff..!!

This ANC Government with it’s Phophi are taking our people for a ride,she must resign together with Onica Moloi on Friday, otherwise she has to be charged for #genocide ,how can a hospital operate with candles..,in this winter,how can you allow patients to bath with Cold Water..?

Actually,where is DA and other opposition parties in this regard,,are they visiting these kinds of hospitals or just waiting for the 2019 Votes;who shall vote coz many lives shall be lost by then..?

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GAUTENG HEALTH OFFICIAL ADMITS BEING NEGLIGENT OVER ESIDIMENI TRAGEDY

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A senior Gauteng Health Department official who headed the Life Esidimeni project has admitted that he was an irresponsible and negligent leader. Levy Mosenogi is testifying on Wednesday during the arbitration process between the State and families of victims of the Esidimeni tragedy. One-hundred-and-eighteen psychiatric patients died after the department terminated its contract with the..
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The maddening state of Gauteng’s psychiatric facilities

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A massive shortages of hospital beds for psychiatric patients in Gauteng is compromising patient care. Gauteng is short of about 2700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards where there is no security, thus posing a threat both to themselves and others. This was revealed recently by Gauteng..
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Doctors Sound Alarm That SA Mental Healthcare Is Collapsing

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While almost all the previous Life Esidimeni psychiatric patients have been transferred from the NGOs in Gauteng back into hospitals, a group of doctors have warned that the psychiatric structure in South Africa is collapsing. Reports reveal that in some mental health hospitals there are no psychiatrists, and none of the provinces have organised community-based..
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