How safe are patients and doctors? That’s the billion-rand question
The family of Sibongile Nkhwashu on Thursday bid farewell to the 24-year-old intern doctor found dead in her room at Manweng Hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo – the latest in a string of criminal attacks in hospitals countrywide.
“I must say this is one of the most devastating stories – the loss of a young doctor who would have been the first to be a doctor in her village,” said health minister Zweli Mkhize who visited the family earlier this week...
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