Bedridden woman faces six more months of pain amid elective surgery backlog

It will be at least another six months of excruciating pain for a Nelson Mandela Bay woman who has been waiting for hip surgery for about a year.

She is one of hundreds of patients who are on a waiting list for elective surgery at state hospitals in the Bay...

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