The orthopaedic patients found lying in Frere Hospital’s overcrowded corridors earlier this week were whisked away to beds in other wards after health MEC Sindiswa Gomba visited the hospital on Wednesday.

But one patient, Qhama Mdyogolo, the man who broke his arm and severed veins while trying to rescue neighbours from a burning house in Dimbaza, was the lone soul left on a mattress on the bench he had lain on since Monday...